top of page

"Miracles surround us at every turn, if we but sharpen our perceptions to them."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Miracles quotes

"I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it."

"When you stop expecting miracles, life is the miracle."

"As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased."

"There are no miracles in agricultural production."

"If GOD can raise a dead man, then He can raise a living man's dead anything."
Explore more quotes by Willa Cather


"Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke."


"The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature."


"As he stood there lost in reflection, Auclair thought he seemed more like a man revolving plans for a new struggle with fortune than one looking back upon a life of brilliant features. The Count had the bearing of a fencer when he takes up the foil; from his shoulders to his heels there was intention and direction. His carriage was his unconscious idea of himself, - it was an armour he put on when he took off his night-cap in the morning, and he wore it all day, at early mass, at his desk, on the march, at the Council, at his dinner-table. Even his enemies relied upon his strength."


"He knew he would always remember her, standing there with that expectant, forward-looking smile, enough to turn the future into summer."


"The land belongs to the future, Carl; that's the way it seems to me. How many of the names on the county clerk's plat will be there in fifty years? I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother's children. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it-for a little while."


"As I went back alone over that familiar road, I could almost believe that a boy and girl ran along beside me, as our shadows used to do, laughing and whispering to each other in the grass."


"I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action."
bottom of page