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Quotes About Miracle

I have always been an impassioned advocate for the works of Shakespeare. I regard him as one of the most complete miracles of his or any other age.
~ Stephen Fry
When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.
~ Millicent Fenwick
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
~ Angela Carter
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.
~ Steven Spielberg
Maybe I was just lucky, but I had the best pregnancy, and I loved giving birth. It was just the most amazing thing, so surreal but so real.
~ Ashlee Simpson
It is a bigger miracle to be patient and refrain from anger than it is to control the demons which fly through the air.
~ John Cassian
To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.
~ Wendell Berry
Again the air is full of falling: the fall of the leaves in the weighty season that brings all home again to the lowly miracle from which they came.
~ Wendell Berry
It was something I might have prayed for, if I had thought of it, but it was not among the possibilities I had foreseen. It was just a good thing that came.
~ Wendell Berry
I live by Miracle.
~ William Blake
It's simpler to believe in a miracle.
~ William Golding
Liar! Liar! shrieked suddenly from the now open trap door. Miracle Max whirled. Back, Witch-- he commanded. I'm not a witch, I'm your wife-- she was advancing on him now, an ancient tiny fury--and after what you've just done I don't think I want to be that any more--
~ William Goldman
Miracle Max: Have fun stormin' da castle. Valerie: Think it'll work? Miracle Max: It would take a miracle.
~ William Goldman
where the Apostle John was first plunged, unhurt, into boiling oil, and thence remitted to his island-exile!
~ William J. Bennett
The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.
~ William Kent Krueger
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
~ Chinese proverb
Solutions-focused therapists learn to focus their patients on the first hints of the miracle—"What's the first small sign you'd see that would make you think the problem was gone"—because they want to avoid answers that are overly grand and unattainable:
~ Chip Heath
The other advantage of scaling the miracle is that it demystifies the journey. Let
~ Chip Heath
Suppose that you go to bed tonight and sleep well. Sometime, in the middle of the night, while you are sleeping, a miracle happens and all the troubles that brought you here are resolved. When you wake up in the morning, what's the first small sign you'd see that would make you think, 'Well, something must have happened—the problem is gone!'?
~ Chip Heath
Once they've helped patients identify specific and vivid signs of progress, they pivot to a second question, which is perhaps even more important. It's the Exception Question: "When was the last time you saw a little bit of the miracle, even just for a short time?
~ Chip Heath
These therapists know that the miracle can seem distant to their patients and that they need to keep their patients motivated and hopeful en route to the destination. To do so, they've devised a way of quantifying progress toward the miracle. They create a miracle scale9 ranging from 0 to 10, where 10 is the miracle. In
~ Chip Heath
When was the last time you saw a little bit of the miracle, even just for a short time?
~ Chip Heath
Can I ask you a sort of strange question? Suppose that you go to bed tonight and sleep well. Sometime, in the middle of the night, while you are sleeping, a miracle happens and all the troubles that brought you here are resolved. When you wake up in the morning, what's the first small sign you'd see that would make you think, 'Well, something must have happened—the problem is gone!'?
~ Chip Heath