#miracles

His hands are miracles. I can watch them for hours, transforming wood into something it never dreamed of being. ↗

— Katja Millay

#miracles #dreams

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#miracles #spiritual #equality

When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision. Always I reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion. ↗

— David Hume

#religion #science #skepticism #life

Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation. ↗

— Dennis R. Miller

#lust #miracles #murder #power #revenge

Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#belief #faith #lack-of-faith #miracles #quotes

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. --from The Light, That Never Dies ↗

— Aberjhani

#hope #inspiration #miracles #philosophy #poetry

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. ↗

— Hans Jonas

#nature #probability #nature

Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to compensate those it has cruelly abandoned. Whoever knows this is willing to suffer, for he knows that nothing is in vain. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#miracles #miracles

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#large #letters #miracles #same #see

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been eaten by a whale. I could have married the Queen of England or survived months at sea. But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman. ↗

— John Green

#ya #ya-lit #young-adult #different