Miracle Quotations | Page 5

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?

I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.

That is very important to me, to make fertility mainstream so everyone understands it. If you want to have your miracle child, there are options: adoption, surrogacy, fertility procedures. It is also sadly very expensive, and not all insurance companies cover it.

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.

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity or entities in the distant past. But I can tell you that in the millennia we elves have studied nature, we have never witnessed an instance where the rules that govern the world have been broken. That is, we have never seen a miracle. Many events have defied our ability to explain, but we are convinced that we failed because we are still woefully ignorant about the universe and not because a deity altered the workings of nature.

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.

I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.

I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.

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.

I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.

people who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one

The fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility, and convenience - and will not change as they change.

One learns to accept the fact that no permanent return is possible to an old form of relationship; and, more deeply still, that there is no holding of a relationship to a single form. This is not tragedy but part of the ever-recurrent miracle of life and growth.

Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.

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.

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.

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

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.

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.

When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

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.

While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.

When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life.

At the end of the day, you cant have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.

Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.

Miracles are merely events that happen just when they are needed.

But since the Word of God is complete, serving as the ultimate "sign" needed to lead mankind to Christ, miracles are an exception rather than the rule. And when they occur, they are always for His glory.

To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.

The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.

My kids are too old to remember this now but, when they were much younger, I swore to them if this miracle ever happened, I would receive it in the spirit of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh, and thats what that was.

Our teachers are everywhere. Our teachers are right in front of us, and take so many forms. All we need to do is to open our eyes, to be open to and aware of the possibilities. Otherwise, we walk sightless among miracles.

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint...

People love miracle stories and dramatic moments of transcendence or transformation, and may then pursue their own dramatic "awakenings."

... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.

Expect resistance but pray for miracles!

God raises the level of the impossible.

He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely...

It's the Twentieth Century ... no more miracles.

The real miracle of individuation and reclamation of the Wild Woman is that we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts and feelings that both tickle and thunder within us. We respond before we know how to speak the language, before we know all the answers, and before we know exactly to whom we are speaking.

These are the days of miracle and wonder.

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?

We don't want to be in that situation again. We realize that was way too big a hole that we built ourselves and it was a miracle that we actually won the division. We know that every game in April shows up in September.

There has been talk recently about how, because productivity was revised down last year, it would belie the productivity miracle of the recent past. We believe today's data indicate that this is not happening.

We kind of call Jarvis our miracle baby because in the spring we didn't have him. And then he came on for us and has done a great job as a pass rusher. He's played through the injuries and really come on for us. He has a chance to be really good, a special player.

We're not playing well. It's a miracle we have the best record in the West.

Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily.

I just take every day is a miracle and I'm really glad that I'm still working and that people are not sick of me, even though even I'm sick of me a little bit.

Without the resources of the mainland, Taiwan cannot go far. Let us work together for prosperity for the whole nation and let us join forces ... to push forward the economic miracle of the Chinese nation.

We watched Miracle over and over. Also, we skated a lot in preparation.

We watched Miracle for the first time in Lake Placid last year.

But she still had a soft spot for ?The Miracle Worker. She said she and Anne Bancroft ?created an evening for people that truly, truly touched their souls.

To define a miracle as a violation or suspension or overriding of natural laws is already to presuppose what nature is like (namely, that nature is a closed causal nexus governed by inviolable rules). It is also to impose prior limits on divine action.

We almost had a miracle year in terms of how the harvest season went.

What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.'

Twenty years ago, Jimmy Carter proclaimed the South Bronx the worst slum in America, ... Twenty years later, Bill Clinton comes to proclaim a miracle in the South Bronx.

What happened to New Orleans and Xavier, represents the greatest disaster this country has ever had. That we were able to come back in such a short period of time is a credit to our staff and faculty, who put aside their personal loses and problems, to make this miracle happen.

What Daniel Webster termed the miracle of our Constitution is not something that happens in every generation, but every generation in its turn must accept the responsibility of supporting and defending the Constitution and bearing true faith and allegiance to it,

What Daniel Webster termed 'the miracle of our Constitution' is not something that happens every generation,

You look at Hoosiers , Miracle on Ice , all those terrific movies in real-life stories, that's what we were hoping for. We weren't able to overcome their talent.

Everything is threatened in his body, ... It's a miracle every second he lives. I could not handle the thought of another child being injured, it would really take me down.

Election administrators have never been through (this) amount of change. It would be an absolute miracle if we don't have hiccups.

Berlin. What a garrison of spies! what a cabinet full of useless, liquid secrets, what a playground for every alchemist, miracle worker and rat piper that ever took up the cloak.

Every single cluster of stem cells has a different contraction rate--its own little rhythm. It's kind of a miracle of life when you can see these cells growing and differentiating before your very eyes. Gladstone scientists have provided key advice on all aspects of our stem cell program by speaking to our staff and our board, as well as the public.

As I have said before, every time we open our doors, it's a miracle. Well, I can tell you that opening our doors this time was the biggest miracle of all. We recognize that some things are still not exactly the way we want them, but with a little patience, understanding, and sacrifice, we will get through this challenge. You have to go through Good Friday to get to Easter Sunday.

An early victim would be the Philadelphia Daily News, no matter who acquires the company. It's much more profitable to publish one newspaper than two in the same market. It's a kind of miracle Knight Ridder kept it going this long.

Ever since Sean Stokes threw in the miracle on South Golden Road, we called this a must-win game. I don't care if that adds pressure. It is what is it.

Each human life is unique, born of a miracle that reaches beyond laboratory science. Any discovery that touches upon human creation is not simply a matter of scientific inquiry. It is a matter of morality and spirituality as well.

Europe, partly because of the sort of political miracle it accomplished on the European continent, has developed a very strong faith in international institutions, international legal mechanisms, as the key to international order, and have really begun to view military power as an illegitimate form of activity, but in any case, something that is to be avoided at almost all costs.

During the lockout, I must've watched Miracle 80 to 100 times. It just always seemed to be on, and every time it was on I watched it. You never get sick of seeing it.

Every year, there is a new diet that all the celebs or housewives are trying. We all want the perfect diet or the perfect pill. If we surveyed a million women, and they could choose to learn the truth about God or the foolproof diet, I guarantee more women would pick the miracle diet over the miracle of life.

There's something about playing the game of baseball that lights up a youngster's eyes but for children facing mental and physical challenges, that opportunity can often be a difficult first test. The Miracle League gives these children the opportunity to get out in the sunshine and enjoy the game of baseball in its purest form.

There's not a mark on his face. There's not a mark on his arms. There's only a mark on his side. It's a miracle he's out of there.

There's no miracle drug that will make that thing go away right away. We'll just play it day by day.

Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of their deepest, most agonising spiritual difficulties, cling only to the free verdict of the heart? Oh, Thou didst know that Thy deed would be recorded in books, would be handed down to remote times and the utmost ends of the earth, and Thou didst hope that man, following Thee, would cling to God and not ask for a miracle. But Thou didst not know that when man rejects miracle he rejects God too; for man seeks not so much God as the miraculous. And as man cannot bear to be without the miraculous, he will create new miracles of his own for himself, and will worship deeds of sorcery and witchcraft, though he might be a hundred times over a rebel, heretic and infidel.

I've never seen anything like this. It's quite shocking to a lot of folks who depend on the snow. There could still be a miracle turnaround; don't underestimate Mother Nature. But the trend doesn't look good for us right now.

I've never seen anything like it. I'm not going to say it was a miracle because that's crippled people getting up and walking, the blind seeing. But that's the closest thing to it I've ever seen.

It would take a small miracle to get us across the line by the end of 2005 in northern Nigeria, ... Everywhere else could still finish.

It would take a miracle to save it. It?s so sad. I thought it would get a lot more support.

It would take a miracle (to play). It's feeling better, but there's too much pain.

It would take a miracle to find a dialogue and a peaceful solution out of the crisis.

It would take a miracle for us to win the championship now. But we're digging. We're going down with a fight. ... Miracles do happen, and I've had the best racing season of my life.

It would take a miracle at this point.

Some people say it will take another miracle for this Congress and administration to find a way to work together. As we begin this historic Congress, let us resolve that we will work in good faith with each other to do the people's business. That is our pledge from this side of the aisle,

Our family and friends are praying for a miracle but are also preparing for the worst and making arrangements for organ donation.

People expect every shot Tiger hits to be a miracle shot, the next one more amazing than the last. That's got to be hard.

So, until the 2006 season begins, unless Zeta somehow makes an unlikely miracle comeback, this is the National Hurricane Center signing off for 2005. Finally.

Now eight days are gone. There are still rescue operations going on. But they say technically after eight days, the chance of miracle saving is slim,

Now it is clear that unless a miracle occurs - and I'm not even sure what kind of miracle - we won't have a final deal ... in Hong Kong.

The mood here is euphoric ... This is being looked upon as a miracle in this small Russian town,

Definitely. It shows anything can happen. If you've got games called the Music City Miracle and what not, it just makes you think anything can happen.

And then we are going to start a new television film about the miracle of love - the chemistry of love. Everything before the kiss.

A second miracle is happening in the case of Elian. It seems that God is guiding us.

A second miracle is happening in the case of Elian, ... It seems that God is guiding us.

As a great sign of this whole message truly coming from God, a marvelous miracle was worked in the sky above Fatima before 70,000 witnesses on Oct. 3, 1917, ... and that miracle occurred at the time, date and place that the children had prophesied in the name of Our Lady of Fatima.

All American companies that provide high tech products and also capital equipment for the Asian economic miracle are going to be hurt because there's an adjustment process that has to be gone through in Asia. It's going to take two to three years, and in the meantime they're going to see lower sales in Asia.

The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.

You're sitting and watching, and it's like a miracle unfolding in front of your eyes and you can't accept it. Somehow, the brain won't work. The easiest way to look at it is everybody remembers every 50-point game they ever saw. He had 55 in the second half.