Best 1441 quotes in «miracle quotes» category

The paintings live because their creator has been passionately attentive to their theme, and his attention has left something for us to look at. It seems a sort of miracle.

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

The place where light and dark begin to touch is where miracles arise.

The power of miracle is the power of imagination.

The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?

The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.

The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in terms of the acceptance of responsibility. And the awareness of responsibility inevitably leads either to despair or to confession and grace.

The private sector is creating a miracle a day, even as the stuff that government attempts is failing left and right.

The real miracle here, or stunning thing to me, is that Angela Merkel thought that she could talk on a cellphone and no one would be listening to her, allies or foes.

There are days that I get neurotic with the instrument [violin]. Every little adjustment will change the balance for good or for bad. It's kind of a miracle, the way the whole thing works as an acoustical whole, so perfectly balanced that any little thing will - which also means the weather, the humidity.

There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.

There are moments when the elixir of life rises to such over−brimming splendor that the soul spills over. In the seraphic smile of the Madonnas the soul is seen to flood the psyche. The moon of the face becomes full; the equation is perfect. A minute, a half−minute, a second later, the miracle has passed. Something intangible , something inexplicable, was given out-and received.

There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.

There are no miracles on Mondays.

There are no miracles in agricultural production.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

There are some teachers who just perform miracles. They can manifest things from the other world into this world. They have siddha powers. They are not necessarily enlightened.

There are truths which some men despise because they have not examined, and which they will not examine because they despise. There is one signal instance on record where this kind of prejudice was overcome by a miracle; but the age of miracles is past, while that of prejudice remains.

There are two miracles in Canadian history. The first is the survival of French Canada, and the second is the survival of Canada.

There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

There can be miracles when you believe.

There is a miracle in every new beginning

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.

There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.

There is no miracle cure for the many problems of the world.

There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.

There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.

There is no such thing as making the miracle happen spontaneously and on the spot. You've got to work.

There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this minute here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

There is nothing in the nature of a miracle that should render it incredible:;: its credibility depends upon the nature of the evidence by which it is supported. An event of extreme probability will not necessarily command our belief unless upon a sufficiency of proof; and so an event which we may regard as highly improbable may command our belief if it is sustained by sufficient evidence. So that the credibility or incredibility of an event does not rest upon the nature of the event itself, but depends upon the nature and sufficiency of the proof which sustains it.

There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us.

There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.

There's a hunger beyond food that's expressed in food, and that's why feeding is always a kind of miracle.

There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves.

There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.

There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle.

There's no word for what Young does, only for what he accomplishes-the capturing of small, daily miracles.

There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.

There's something about living in the country that I think makes you inventive, because nature is full of miracles and wonder and surprises, and if you don't have much money, you have to make things if you want things.

The resurrection confronts our world with wonder, mystery, and miracles.

There's very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.

There was other stuff, too, like how something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living.

The resurrection of Christ is therefore emphatically a test question upon which depends the truth or falsehood of the Christian religion. It is either the greatest miracle or the greatest delusion which history records.

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.

There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.

There were positive things about the church, that is, in the European cultural sense, the architecture, the liturgy, the music, the art, such as it was, the stations of the cross in the church, the tradition, and the atmosphere of awe and mystery in the mass. The atmosphere of miracle, one of mainly mystery, that's what fascinates me.