123 Quotes About Earthquakes

  • Author Peter Kreeft
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    God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

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  • Author Alan Lightman
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    Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.

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  • Author Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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    Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock.

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  • Author Laurent Lamothe
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    Canadians have been very generous toward Haiti after the earthquake and, thanks to you, our most vulnerable people have received food, drinkable water, shelter, medical care and education. For that, we are extremely grateful.

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  • Author Bill Maher
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    Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas... and improve the roads.

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