"When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of the miraculous. When people contemplate with open minds the germination of a single seed, they are equally overwhelmed-yet numerous babies are born every day, and no-one marvels. If only people opened their minds, they would see that the birth of a baby, in which a new life is created, is a greater miracle than restoring life."
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"You got up, and you did something. And if trying to find a way when you don't even know you can get there isn't a small miracle; then I don't know what is."
"The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh."
"The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed."
"I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious."
"[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty."
"No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along."
"Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream."
"Death was no less a miracle than birth."
"...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle."
"If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle."
"Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was the most bewildering and remarkable of all. Whenever Bundle separated again, Po was left with an ache of sadness that reminded the ghost of the body it had left behind."
"... every human being is an unprecedented miracle."
"When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical."
"So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me 'arch priestess of the sightless,' 'wonder woman,' and a 'modern miracle.' But when it comes to a discussion of poverty, and I maintain that it is the result of wrong economics-that the industrial system under which we live is at the root of much of the physical deafness and blindness in the world-that is a different matter!"
"[A] good Christian does not care for miracles very much, because a miracle is God looking after His own affairs, and we prefer looking after them for Him."
"Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes."
"There is a giant asleep within every man. When that giant awakes, miracles happen."
"Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with."
"Mysteries are not necessarily miracles."