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“Everything is endured—disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui—in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
“Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“Anything can be a miracle, a blessing, an opportunity if you choose to see it that way.” Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure
“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish” David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“Faith is a miracle, and yet no man is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is unified is passion, and faith is a passion.” Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
“The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the fact.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“Just because you can explain it doesn’t mean it’s not still a miracle.” Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
“They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.” Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
“She would consider each day a miracle — which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door, then.” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Men
“To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a miracle.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
“Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water!” Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
“he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second, you're an object. I am nothing, and not even that.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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