Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.
This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.
So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.
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.
Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. When you choose to love, you choose to work miracles.
I am a realist. I expect miracles.
The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
If we could learn to live from the level of the soul, we would see that the best most luminous part of ourselves is connected to all the rhythms of the universe. We would truly know ourselves as the miracle-makers we are capable of being.
The gospel which they so greatly needed they would not have; the miracles which Jesus did not always choose to give, they eagerly demanded.
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize it that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.
It's a miracle when we finally discover whom we're best equipped to serve.
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