“She is of course just an ordinary miracle, but is also the particular late wonder of my life.”

“Miracles do occur, and it's never too late to turn your life around and reach for something better.”

“The future might have been crammed with miracles and wonders, but it also offered truly awesome opportunities for screwing up.”

“… if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle.”

“This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen.”

“My fingers are turning red, my nose is turning red, and that kind of cold, I was, of course, also unfamiliar with. And snow has always had an awe for me. The silence that takes over the world, and just. . . the absolute miracle of snow. I’ve never gotten over it, I have to confess.”

“People are more curious – miracles more ordinary.”

“She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.”

“One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy.”

“Christ's miracles were vivid manifestations to the senses that He is the Saviour of the body — and now as then the issues of life and death are in His hands — that our daily existence is a perpetual miracle. The extraordinary was simply a manifestation of God's power in the ordinary.”