miracle quotes

   A miracle is not the breaking of the laws of the fallen world.It is the re-establishment of the laws of the kingdom.

-Sourozh
  Living Prayer.

It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  'Kubla Khan'.

It's not a sin to be rich anymoreit's a miracle.

-John Bowden Connally
  In Time,18  Jan.

I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest, My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning. The world shall find this miracle in me, That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.

- Samuel Daniel
  Delia, sonnet 33.

This wondrous miracle did Love devise, For dancing is love's proper exercise.

- SirJohn Davies
  Orchestra, or a Poem of Dancing, stanza18.

The power of miracle is the power of imagination.

- Ludwig Feuerbach
Das Wesen des Christentums (translated by MaryAnn Evans (George Eliot) as The Essence of Christianity,1854).

To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.

- Arthur Honegger
I Am a Composer.

I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creationthe miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

- Aldous Leonard Huxley
  The Doors of Perception.

Is, to dispute well, logic's chiefest end? Affords this art no greater miracle?

- Christopher Marlowe
c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act1, sc.1.

A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as a Nazi lampshade.

- Sylvia Plath
  'Lady Lazarus', published posthumously byTed Hughes (Ariel,1965).

Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.

- R(onald) S(tuart) Thomas
  Laboratories of the Spirit,'The Bright Field'.

Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

- Ivan Turgenev
Poems in Prose,'Prayer'.