You know how when you learn a new word that you've never heard before, you inevitably hear it 10 times in the next week? I've been doing a lot of reading lately and I feel like that has been happening not just with words but with entire ideas. Lately I can't stop thinking about these two quotes- I love that they say just about the same thing from two very different sources.
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." --A. Einstein
"The first miracle by Jesus recorded in the New Testament was the turning of water into wine at the marriage at Cana... But poor, indeed, was the making of wine in the pots of stone, compared with its original making in the beauty of the vine and the abundance of the swelling grapes. No one could explain the onetime miracle at the wedding feat, but then neither could they explain the everyday miracle of the splendor of the vineyard itself.
It is most remarkable to witness one who is deaf made to hear again, but surely that great blessing is no more startling than the wondrous combination of bones and skin and nerves that let our ears receive the beautiful world of sound. Should we not stand in awe of the blessing of hearing and give glory to God for that miracle, even as we do when hearing is restored after it has been lost?
Is it not the same for the return of one's sight or the utterance of our speech, or even that greatest miracle of all- the restoration of life? The original creations of the Father constitute a truly wonder-filled world. Are not the greatest miracles the fact that we have life and limb and sight and speech in the first place? Yes, there will always be plenty of miracles if we have eyes to see and ears to hear." --Howard W. Hunter in "The God That Doest Wonders"
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." --A. Einstein
"The first miracle by Jesus recorded in the New Testament was the turning of water into wine at the marriage at Cana... But poor, indeed, was the making of wine in the pots of stone, compared with its original making in the beauty of the vine and the abundance of the swelling grapes. No one could explain the onetime miracle at the wedding feat, but then neither could they explain the everyday miracle of the splendor of the vineyard itself.
It is most remarkable to witness one who is deaf made to hear again, but surely that great blessing is no more startling than the wondrous combination of bones and skin and nerves that let our ears receive the beautiful world of sound. Should we not stand in awe of the blessing of hearing and give glory to God for that miracle, even as we do when hearing is restored after it has been lost?
Is it not the same for the return of one's sight or the utterance of our speech, or even that greatest miracle of all- the restoration of life? The original creations of the Father constitute a truly wonder-filled world. Are not the greatest miracles the fact that we have life and limb and sight and speech in the first place? Yes, there will always be plenty of miracles if we have eyes to see and ears to hear." --Howard W. Hunter in "The God That Doest Wonders"
3 comments:
Thanks for sharing those quotes. I got chills.
I love those quotes! So true! Everything is such a miracle in this life and we all need to do better at remembering it!! Thanks for the insights!
I love those quotes too. Good reminder ...
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