Quotes About Miracle

I manage a toast to the Christmas treeand one to the sweet absurdityin the miracle of the verb to be.Lucky you, lucky me.

•Zuzu Bailey: Look, Daddy. Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. •George Bailey: That's right, that's right. •George Bailey: Attaboy, Clarence.

Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open- hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.

Death was no less a miracle than birth.

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

That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that—of just that.

a hope for healing should be presented realistically. It is just that — a "hope," not a guarantee. If it comes, a joyous miracle has happened. If it doesn't come, God has not let you down.

But often the greatest miracle God can perform for you is right in your own heart. The Bible says to "delight yourself in the Lord; and He will give you the desires of your heart" (Ps. 37:4).

What did they know of motherhood, the mad miracle of finding your interior drawn from you, clinging and bawling and giggling and learning everything there was to learn anew?

Elijah wanted the crisis to be dealt with, and the boy was raised from the dead. Answered prayer is better—and more important—than answered questions: If you demand answers to your questions before you affirm the blood of Christ, you will lose your soul.

I'm saying a prayer. Maybe you ought to, too. It's going to take us a miracle to get through this." Whether he was serious or not, Claire sent the prayer up toward heaven, and she thought the others did, too. So it seemed kind of miraculous when the doorbell rang. "At least they're getting more polite when they try to kill us," Shane said.

It's not just a miracle; it's a miracle with chocolate. Best kind.

Paul?" I said. My voice shook a little. "It's Jo." Silence. I couldn't tell what was happening on the other end. Then, very quietly, "Jesus." "No, just Joanne, although I can see how you might make the mistake, coming back from the dead and all.

Life is a miracle beyond our comprehension, and we should reverence it even where we have to struggle against it. . . .

Life is a miracle beyond our comprehension, and we should reverence it even where we have to struggle against it. . . . The

Christmas could begin. Magic could happen.

Life is so fragile and uncertain that every daybreak is a miracle, almost a triumph. That first blush in the sky is all the hope of the world distilled into light. I watch the dark fade, and say to myself, "Okay, I'm still here," and the more sunrises I see, the more I feel as if I'll live to see another twenty thousand.

I'm sure, you'll never again have a problem with a tool or a machine. No more hammered thumbs, no vacuum-cleaner catastrophes. That'll take a second miracle. Because all that clumsiness was never anything but an elaborate excuse not to have a gun, not to learn how to use one.

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Life is so fragile and uncertain that every daybreak is a miracle, almost a triumph.

Life is so fragile and uncertain that every daybreak is a miracle, almost a triumph. That first blush in the sky is all the hope of the world distilled into light.

It is a miracle, Claire. Whether it was performed by God himself or by the hands of doctors He created and guided, I won't call it anything