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Sometimes
we are simply “blown away” and in awe by
finding ourselves in the presence of God.
Other
times, however, even when we are participating in
acts of kindness—complimenting others, writing a
check to charity, donating time to a good cause—we are
oblivious to the miracle of what is happening at that
moment. -Harold Kushner
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You can become blind by seeing each day as a
similar one.
Each day is a different one, each day brings a
miracle of its own.
It's just a matter of paying attention
to this miracle. -Paulo Coelho
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| To love someone is to always see them as the
miracle that they are;
as the miracle that they exist, the
miracle that makes your own simultaneous existence seem
fortunately improbable and therefore
defiantly miraculous;
is to show them, in your eyes and through
the way in which
you look at them, the limitless beauty of their
true
miraculous selves; is to say to them in every glance:
"I
believe in miracles because I believe in you."
-Philip Jason |
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The most wonderful thing about miracles
is
that they sometimes happen.
-G.K. Chesterson
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| 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 |
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| The
person who does not believe in miracles surely
makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.
-William
Blake |
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| 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 |
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miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has
come into
a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the
all-pervading
wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher
than the
ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him or her.
-Ralph
Waldo Trine |
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| In
asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal:
a return to inner peace. We're not asking for something
outside us to change, but for something inside us to change.
-Marianne
Williamson |
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| Miracles rest not so much upon healing power
coming suddenly
near us from afar, but upon our perceptions
being made finer,
so that for the moment our eyes can see
and our ears
can hear what has been there around us always.
-Willa Cather |
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be a miracle worker you do not have to get a
doctoral degree, become a minister, eat a
particular food, or be able to meditate
for long hours. All you need to do is to begin
to see beauty in your life and those around you.
-Alan
Cohen |
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| Miracles
only work through your own faith. Where there is
not faith there can be no miracle. So those who want
to perform a miracle can only do so by the power of faith.
From this it is evident that the matter rests entirely with
you. -Papa
Ramdas |
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| I have found in life that
if you
want a
miracle you
first
need
to do whatever
it is you can do--
if that's to plant, then plant;
if it is to read, then read;
if it is to change, then change;
if it is to study, then study;
if it is to work, then work;
whatever you have to do.
And then you will be well
on your way
of doing the
labor
that works miracles. -Jim Rohn |
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| Yes,
it is true. I am a miracle.
I am a miracle like a tree
is a miracle, like a flower
is a miracle. Now, if I am
a miracle, can I do a bad
thing? I can't, because
I am a miracle,
I am a miracle. . . .
-Pau
Casals |
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| 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.
-Augustine
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| Miracles are not in contradiction to
nature. They are only
in contradiction
with what we
know of nature. -St. Augustine |
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| Where there is great love
there are always
miracles. Miracles
rest not so much upon healing power coming
suddenly
near us from afar, but upon our perceptions being made
finer,
so that for the moment our eyes can see and our ears can
hear
what has been there around us always.
-Willa Cather |
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| The miracles of nature do not seem miracles
because they are so common. If no one had ever seen a flower,
even a dandelion would be the most startling event in the
world. -unattributed |
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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot
explain,
surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of
miracles. -George Bernard Shaw
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In the realist, faith is not born from
miracles, but miracles from faith.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky |
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Know in your heart that all things are
possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none had ever
happened. -Libbie Fudim |
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I am realistic--I expect miracles.
-Wayne Dyer |
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Now seeds are just dimes to the man in the
store
And the dimes are the things that he needs,
And I've
been to buy them in seasons before
But have thought of them
merely as seeds;
But it flashed through my mind as I took
them this time,
"You purchased a miracle here for a
dime."
Edgar Albert Guest |
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Expect a miracle. Receive the miracle with
great humility.
-unattributed |
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All of my days are miracles.
I won't waste my day;
I won't throw away miracles.
-Kelley Vicstrom |
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-Mao Tse-Tung |
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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 |
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If Spring came but once in a century, instead
of once a year, or burst forth
with the sound of an
earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder
and expectation
there would be in all hearts to behold the
miraculous
change! But now the silent succession suggests
nothing but
necessity. To most people only the cessation of the miracle
would be miraculous and the perpetual exercise of God's
power
seems less wonderful than its withdrawal would be.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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All change is a miracle to contemplate; but
it is a miracle which is taking place every second.
-Henry David Thoreau |
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Why has our poetry eschewed
The rapture and
response of food?
What hymns are sung and praises said
For
the home made miracle of bread?
Louis Untermeyer |
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Why,
who makes much of a miracle?
As to me I know nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs and houses towards the
sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge
of the water,
Or stand under the trees in the woods,
Or talk by day with any one I love, or sleep in the bed at
night with any one I love,
Or sit at table at dinner with the rest,
Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car,
Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive of a summer
forenoon,
Or animals feeding in the fields,
Or birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air,
Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining
so quiet and bright,
Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in
spring;
These with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles,
The whole referring, yet each distinct and in its place.
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle,
Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread
with the same,
Every foot of the interior swarms with the same,
To me the sea is a continual miracle,
The fishes that swim--the rocks--the motion of the
waves--the ships with men in them,
What stranger miracles are there?
Walt Whitman |
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