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• Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

  Norman Douglas

  Happiness, Laughter, Giving

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.164, Courier Corporation

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• Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Sound, Rhyming, Uniforms

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• We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Produce, Knows

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.487, Discovery House

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• What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Childhood, Miracle, World

  "Autobiography". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1936.

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• The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.

  Simon Armitage

  Ordinary

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• The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Miracle, Facts, Realist

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.53, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Effort, Cost, Able

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• A miracle is a shift in perception. The moment that we choose to perceive our life with love, we can create miraculous change.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Miracle, Perception, Moments

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• The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Thinking, Mind

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• There is within each of us the possibility of magnificence. Every moment is an opportunity to make it manifest. Let the spirit awaken you to a miraculous life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Opportunity, Magnificence, Spirit

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• Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.

  Rebecca West

  Taken, Miracle, Existence

  Rebecca West (1982). “Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The miraculous thing is that miracles do happen.

  Josephine Pinckney

  Miracle, Miracles Do Happen, Happens

  Josephine Pinckney (1948). “Great Mischief”, New York : Viking Press

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• Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Patterns, Individual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.230, Princeton University Press

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• Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Tree, Growth, Fruits Of The Spirit

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.217, SCM Press

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• In the beginning of the book, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Edward is more enamored of himself than he is of anybody else. He's a very fine rabbit; he's been constructed incredibly well, and he has a wardrobe of amazing clothing. He's arrogant, and he doesn't care whether Abilene loves him or not. As the journey progresses, as he gets passed from hand to hand, he learns what it means to love. He gets more and more bedraggled, and his clothing is lost; yet he becomes finer in soul and heart than he was at the beginning of the journey.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Heart, Mean

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occam’s razor, which states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. They assume that the most likely explanation is miraculous resurrection through some unproven divine connection, but more likely scenarios include a stolen body, a mismarked grave, a planned removal, faulty reports, creative storytelling, edited scriptures, etc. No magic required.

  David G. McAfee

  Christian, Convincing Evidence, Creative

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• The sign that the kundalini is releasing is not the development of miraculous powers, but that your mind is becoming quieter.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind, Development

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• At any appearance, I make sure that before the person takes a pic and runs away, that I make contact. All I can do is give that little bit of me, the kickback is miraculous.

  Betsey Johnson

  Running, Giving, Littles

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting of the sea, the bellowing voice from heaven. Instead we should be looking at the ordinary day-to-day events in our lives for evidence of the miraculous, maintaining at the same time a scientific orientation.

  M. Scott Peck

  Believe, Thinking, Ordinary Days

  M. Scott Peck (2001). “Wisdom from the Road Less Traveled”, p.148, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

  Charles Darwin

  Giving, Natural, Descent

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.490, Broadview Press

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• Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.

  e. e. cummings

  Simplicity, Failing, Grows

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• Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sweet, Children, Grateful

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it

  Gautama Buddha

  Healing, Attachment, Wonderful

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• Looking at a cat, like looking at clouds or stars or the ocean, makes it difficult to believe there is nothing miraculous in this world.

  Leonard Michaels

  Stars, Believe, Ocean

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• I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.

  Federico Fellini

  Art, Perspective, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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