miracle

miracle
01. It will be a [miracle] if Howard passes the test because he never, never studies.
02. There is no [miracle] method to learn a second language quickly.
03. In the Bible, Jesus performs several [miracles], including bringing a man back from the dead.
04. The old woman went to church to pray for a [miracle].
05. Rainer Maria Rilke once said that the [miracle] that happens every time to those who really love is that the more they give, the more they possess.
06. She made a [miraculous] recovery from her illness.
07. There is an Arab proverb which states that you should not stand in a place of danger trusting in [miracles].
08. H. G. Wells once said that we must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a [miracle] and mystery.
09. Robert Ingersoll once said that ignorance is the soil in which belief in [miracles] grows.
10. The [miraculous] economic growth experienced in the Asian countries over the past 2 decades has slowed considerably in the last couple of years.
11. A school bus was hit by a train today, but [miraculously] no one was injured.
12. A baby girl was dropped from the Capilano Suspension Bridge a few years ago, but [miraculously] she survived.
13. A little girl in Juneau survived after spending over two hours outside in -20° weather. It's a [miracle] that she didn't die.
14. Every week some new health product promises you a [miracle] cure, but very few of them actually do anything.
15. The Talmud advises us, "Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a [miracle] may not save you, and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit."
16. Albert Einstein once remarked, "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]."
17. Leonard Nimoy once remarked, "The [miracle] is this - the more we share, the more we have."
18. It is said that the Buddhist teacher Padmasambhava was born [miraculously] - he just appeared as a beautiful seven-year-old child in the middle of a lotus flower on a lake.

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