It’s bits of dead cow; don’t ask it to perform miracles.
Why is it that, despite having achieved previously undreamed-of miracles of progress, we seem more helpless in facing life than our less privileged ancestors were? The answer seems clear: while humankind collectively has increased its material powers a thousandfold, it has not advanced very far in terms of improving the content of experience.
I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles.
Life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions, or a miracle. Too many steps are involved to allow for something in between.
There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.
When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.
To me, the idea of a weatherman is really powerful. There's a guy on television or on the radio telling us the future, and nobody cares. It's this daily mundane miracle, and I think the songs I chose are about noticing the beauty in normal, everyday life.
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.
A man who saw a miracle would reject his eyes' witness, if those with him saw nothing.
I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles
life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so constant, that's the miracle -
Do you believe in miracles? Well, you should. In fact, life itself is a big miracle. There are so many things that are beyond our understanding. There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Each time we make this shift and choose happiness, we experience a miracle. Our mind shifts from fearful delusions and reconnects to our truth, which is love. Creating these shifts requires a dedicated commitment to choosing love.
He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely.
The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.
Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense
Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.
You are not realistic unless you believe in miracles!
[The masses]. . . must turn their hopes toward a miracle. In the depths of their despair reason cannot be believed, truth must be false, and lies must be truth. "Higher bread prices," "lower bread prices," "unchanged bread prices" have all failed. The only hope lies in a kind of bread price which is none of these, which nobody has ever seen before, and which belies the evidence of one's reason.
