A BOOK OF JOYOUS HOPE AND PROMISE
Here is a simple but powerful story that will affect your thoughts and actions long after the final sentence has touched your heart.
YOU WILL NEVER FORGET:
The four simple rules that can help you perform a miracle in your life.
The glass geranium that will break your heart.
The dingy parking lot where Mandinos life, and yours, begins again.
The ragpicker who rescues humans after they quit on themselves.
The secret of regaining the self-esteem you have lost.
THE GREATEST MIRACLE
IN THE WORLD
This edition contains the complete text of the original hardcover edition.
NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED .
THE GREATEST MIRACLE IN THE WORLD
A Bantam Book/published by arrangement with Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc.
PUBLISHING HISTORY
Frederick Fell edition published June 1975
Bantam edition/September 1977
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Copyright 1975 by Og Mandino.
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Contents
Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
Isaiah 6:8
Now go, write it before them in a table and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.
Isaiah 30:8
APPRECIATIONS
I am delighted with Og Mandinos latest book, THE GREATEST MIRACLE IN THE WORLD. Here again, one of the greatest inspirational writers of our time has produced a work that will lift the mind and heart of every reader with powerful motivational appeal.
For many years I have eagerly read everything Og Mandino has written, always to my profit, and I personally owe him a great debt of gratitude. This sentiment, I am sure, will be echoed by his wide circle of readers.
This new book, THE GREATEST MIRACLE IN THE WORLD, will produce miracles in the lives of thousands of people.
Norman Vincent Peale
Today when we face what is probably the greatest challenge history has ever known, Og Mandinos new book THE GREATEST MIRACLE IN THE WORLD should be read by every salesman and sales manager in the country.
Today when millions of people are troubled, uncertain, and confused, Frederick Fell has the answer to all the readers of THE GREATEST SALESMAN IN THE WORLD.
The rich deposits of inspiration left by preceding generations take on a new vital significance. There never was a time when millions of people were more desperately in need of faith, hope and courage and peace of mind, of standards and ideals by which to live and above all an abiding belief in the future and in the progress of mankind.
Lester J. Bradshaw, Jr.
President
Bradshaw Associates, Inc.
Og Mandino has done it again! THE GREATEST MIRACLE IN THE WORLD is a fascinating story told in Mandinos pleasing and unique style.
P. H. Glatfelter III
Chairman and President
P. H. Glatfelter Company
Whether or not one has read the authors previous masterpiece, The Greatest Salesman in the World, he or she has an indescribable treat in store in Og Mandinos latest creation of genius. You cannot help being awed by the vicarious influence of the present day Simon Potter, mystic ragpicker who so mysteriously touched the life of the authorand, for that matter,the lives of everyone who reads The Greatest Miracle in the World.
Paul J. Meyer
President
Success Motivation Institute
A SUPER book that will kindle the pilot light of all those who desire to become professional ragpickers as well as those who need to be picked up from the ragpile of life.
Rick Forzano
Head Coach, Detroit Lions
Its Spring again. Og Mandino is back. As we cattlemen say, he wintered real good.
He returns from hibernation with another novel means of inspiring each of us to be something more than we are.
Paul Harvey
Paul Harvey News
American Broadcasting Company
I think THE GREATEST MIRACLE IN THE WORLD has a chance for very wide sales and a chance to be a staple stock item in many book stores for a long time to come. It has the opportunity to appeal to a broad segment of the reading public.
Gerald N. Battle, Manager
Retail Stores Marketing Department
Cokesbury Book Stores
The GREATEST MIRACLE IN THE WORLD is a canvas of colorful imagination brilliantly painted by a master weaver of words. a reading experience that remains indelible.
Buddy Kaye
LyricistAcademy of Motion Pictures
(Music Branch)
Og Mandino has done it again! He has written another book which will rival his classic bestseller, THE GREATEST SALESMAN IN THE WORLD.
Harlan Smith
Assistant Vice President
Krochs and Brentanos, Inc.
THE GREATEST MIRACLE IN THE WORLD is one of the most beautiful and most moving pieces of writing that I have ever had the privilege to readand to publish.
Frederick V. Fell
Publisher