"When a person dies, the earth is generally……" — Leif Enger
"When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth."
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Leif Enger
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31 Quotes by Leif Enger
Leif Enger has 31 quotes on this site.
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Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth.
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You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of…
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Once torched by truth...a little thing like faith is easy.
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Routine is worry's sly assassin.
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Fair is whatever God wants to do.
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Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we…
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We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit…
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Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can…
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I prayed the Lord would sort (my prayers) out and answer as needed. Above all that he would hurry.
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Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.
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Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.
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My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed--though ignoring…
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— Mary Kay Ash
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Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own…
— Elbert Hubbard
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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.
— Mark Thomas
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Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
— Thomas a Kempis
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We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad…
— Antisthenes
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My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the…
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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
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People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend…
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