#mira

It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow." "Ah...quite. You are a man of acute insight." "That’s not insight. That’s a personal guarantee. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#failure-is-not-an-option #guarantee #guarantees #human-sacrifice #insight

There's nothing easier to control than a person who trusts you. They place their hope in your hands. They place their respect in your hands. What is truly fearsome about such delusional admiration, is the betrayal that you don't see, hidden within the white void of truth. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#betrayal #delusions #respect

I like to see in every man a respect for virtue even if he, himself, has it not, for it may be that the next step will be so desire it and he that desires to be just is almost so. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#respect

No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle. Nothing but falsehood ever attested itself by signs and wonders. No miracle ever was performed, and no sane man ever thought he had performed one, and until one is performed, there can be no evidence of the existence of any power superior to, and independent of nature. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#miracles #religion #science #skepticism #nature

People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn’t blame science. People should blame people. ↗

— Mira Grant

#humor #mira-grant #science #true #science

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#gratitude #insignificant #miracle #plant #seed

And then I feel as if I'm witnessing a miracle, as ever so slowly she raises her face towards the moon. I watch her drink in the sight, sensing the flood of memories she's unleashed and wanting nothing more than to let her know I'm here. But instead I stay where I am and stare up at the moon as well. And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#moonlight #yearning #miracles

God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles ↗

— Helen Schucman

#acim #miraculous #inner-peace

Aku tidak pernah keberatan menunggu siapa pun berapa lama pun selama aku mencintainya" (dalam cerpen Linguae, Linguae, Gramedia, 2007) ↗

— Seno Gumira Ajidarma

#cinta #seno-gumira-ajidarma #cinta

I tapped around on my new Miracle Phone—a gift from Joseph—as I listened to the discussion about our next move. I wasn’t trying to be rude, but I’d recently become addicted to this one game on my Miracle Phone. Really, I was listening. I could multitask like no other. Trust me, there’s an app for that. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

#fallen-legion #fantasy #fiction #gabriella-moretti #humor