Miracle famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
-- Abel Ferrara -
The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.
-- Abraham Maslow -
We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
-- Abraham Maslow -
As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person can seem like a miracle, so improbable a happening as to be awe-inspiring. And simultaneously one is heartened by the fact that self-actualizing persons do in fact exist, that they are therefore possible, that the gauntlet of dangers can be run, that the finish line can be crossed.
-- Abraham Maslow -
A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Anyone who dares to lay hands on the highest image of the Lord commits sacrilege against the benevolent creator of this miracle and contributes to the expulsion from paradise.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.
-- Adora Svitak -
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc. In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
-- Alain Badiou -
The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.
-- Alan Redpath -
Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein -
You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein -
When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.
-- Albert Hofmann -
LSD wanted to tell me something.... It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.
-- Albert Hofmann -
I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.
-- Aldous Huxley -
There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.
-- Alessandro Nivola -
There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
If, by some miracle, you're lucky enough to meet the One, whatever you do, don't let them go. Because you don't get another shot at it. Soulmates aren't like buses; there's not going to be another one along in a minute. That's why they're called 'The One'.
-- Alexandra Potter -
It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground?
-- Alfred Polgar -
Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly. To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.
-- Alfred Stieglitz -
You are always wanting miracles; but God sows miracles by handfuls under your feet, and yet you still have people who deny their existence.
-- Allan Kardec -
I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing.
-- Allan Sandage -
The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses.
-- Amado V. Hernandez -
Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.
-- Amber Tamblyn -
Miracles need people as much as people need miracles.
-- Amy Neftzger -
When you really consider the everyday things around you, they start to seem like tiny miracles.
-- Amy Shearn -
I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
-- Anais Nin -
A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right. Indecision limits The Almighty and His ability to perform miracles in your life. He has put the vision in you - proceed! To wait, to wonder, to doubt, to be indecisive is to disobey God.
-- Andy Andrews -
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
-- Angela Carter -
I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.
-- Angelus Silesius -
The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility.
-- Angus Buchan -
Faith is a day-to-day lifestyle and experience of Jesus Christ. That's what we are experiencing at Shalom, when we plant in faith - even in the dust - and trust in him for the miracles of his love.
-- Angus Buchan -
Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
-- Ann Voskamp -
Thanksgiving creates abundance; and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough.
-- Ann Voskamp -
The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.
-- Ann Voskamp -
How the miracle of our meeting Shone there and sang, I didn't want to return From there to anywhere. Happiness instead of duty Was bitter delight to me. Not obliged to speak to anyone, I spoke for a long while. Let passions stifle lovers, Demanding answers, We, my dear, are only souls At the limits of the world.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.
-- Anne Bancroft -
Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.
-- Anne Carson -
The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we’ve been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
-- Anne Lamott -
Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.
-- Anne Lamott -
The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with.
-- Ansel Adams -
The miracle of life is enough for me to believe in miracles.
-- Anthony D. Williams -
The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.
-- Anthony Doerr -
If you don't believe in miracles, you will see none.
-- Anthony Douglas -
But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?
-- Anthony Marra -
The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It's outstandingly different in quality and quantity.
-- Antony Flew -
Our lives with all their miracles and wonders are merely a discontinuous string of incidents - until we create the narrative that gives them meaning
-- Arlene Goldbard -
Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.
-- Arnold Bennett -
Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly as it was going to take place, his predictions would sound so absurd that people everyone would laugh him to scorn. The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic. So, if what I say now seems to you to be very reasonable, then I will have failed completely. Only if what I tell you appears absolutely unbelievable have we any chance of visualizing the future as it really will happen,
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.
-- Arthur Honegger -
To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and fooled, still there is left to the genuine works of all times a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence; and as if by a miracle, we see them rise at last out of the turmoil like a balloon that floats up out of the thick atmosphere of this globe into purer regions. Having once arrived there, it remains at rest, and no one can any longer draw it down again.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.
-- Astrid Lindgren -
For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.
-- Athol Fugard -
The trick in life is to hang out until the miracles come.
-- Attica Locke -
Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
I mean, what's better than having the person you love love you? That's pretty exciting. It's pretty amazing, actually. It's like a miracle or something…
-- Aya Nakahara -
Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chaos, a realm of inexplicable miracles, an unpredictable, unknowable flux, which your mind is impotent to grasp? The nature of your actions - and of your ambition - will be different, according to which set of answers you come to accept.
-- Ayn Rand -
Miracles are manifestations for which science has no definition, no analysis.
-- B. J. Palmer -
How to sustain the miracle Of being, that like a muted bell, Or like some ocean-breathing shell, Quivers, intense and still?
-- Babette Deutsch -
It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
If you let your mind talk you out of things that aren't logical, you're going to have a very boring life. Because grace isn't logical. Love isn't logical. Miracles aren't logical.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.
-- Barbara Katz Rothman -
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.
-- Barry Diller -
I had a few miracles happen out there today.
-- Ben Crenshaw -
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.
-- Ben Okri -
Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, its a quiet thing. At least for me it was.
-- Ben Vereen -
I am looking forward to even greater healings and miracles in my ministry.
-- Benny Hinn -
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
-- Bernard Berenson -
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her.
-- Bernard Berenson -
Miracles and angels are a part of our lives, so anticipate them and tune in through your quiet mind.
-- Bernie Siegel -
The inexplicable happens all the time. It makes more sense to simply accept things we observe but cannot understand. It is really more scientific to keep an open mind. Until we can understand and explain the things we now label miracles, let us accept them and try to create more of them.
-- Bernie Siegel -
When I started in television, it was brand new. It was the miracle over in the corner of your room. Now the audience has seen every story line. People have heard every joke. They can predict the plot almost before a show starts. That's a hard, sophisticated audience to reach.
-- Betty White -
Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.
-- Beverley Nichols -
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.
-- Bill James -
We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.
-- Bill W. -
There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be
-- Billy Joel -
I was treated with a miracle drug, just like Lance Armstrong,
-- Billy Tauzin -
For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God!
-- Bliss Carman -
We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.
-- Boris Kodjoe -
Some people think a miracle is only a miracle if it happens instantaneously, but miracles can grow slowly and patience and faith can compel things to happen that otherwise never would have come to pass.
-- Boyd K. Packer -
Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.
-- Brad Warner -
Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough!
-- Brian Houston -
Praise works best at the start, before the miracle, before the breakthrough, before the restoration.
-- Brian Houston -
No matter how successful you've been in the past the question is what's your next miracle.
-- Brian Tracy -
Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.
-- Brian Tracy -
It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle.
-- Brian Trubshaw -
Our rational minds often attempt to minimise or negate the mystical encounters. We forget the power of our experiences. We must embrace the reality of that event, which is a miracle.
-- Brian Weiss -
Miracles, or those extraordinary manifestations of the power of god, are not for the unbeliever; they are to console the Saints, and to strengthen and confirm the faith of those who love, fear, and serve God.
-- Brigham Young -
Miracles happen. They have happened to me and they are happening to you. You need only look to the people in your lives in order to see them.
-- Brooke Ellison
