MIRACLES QUOTES IV

quotations about miracles

Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them, you'll find more than you ever imagined possible.

DANIEL HANDLER

as Lemony Snicket, The Lump of Coal

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Men's thirst for the most amazing and indubitable wonders actually stems from a desire for a faith without shadows, for a crown without a cross.... A miracle is Christian only if it helps us to believe rather than relieves us of the necessity of faith.

LOUIS MONDEN

attributed, When You Need a Miracle


A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to compensate those it has cruelly abandoned.

MARK HELPRIN

Winter's Tale


Miracles don't occur when I want what I haven't got or pray for neon letters in the sky. I can only perceive the miraculous by appreciating and being open to each moment. I tend, as I think many of us do, to think that miracles are only those things that bring great joy, happiness, clarity, or relief. But miracles often, at first, seem a mixed blessing at best or even quite painful.

MARILYN LANCELOT

Switching Addictions


Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts

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You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

JANDY NELSON

I'll Give You the Sun


The spirit which in the modern Church has sometimes sought to found Christian faith on signs and wonders appears to me to be almost as much one of unbelief as the spirit which outside the Church denies the miraculous altogether.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Letters to Unknown Friends

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Can you remember what it was like to walk in the midst of a world of miracles? Can you remember ever traveling within a world of pure delight with a joy untainted by craving or aversion? What happened to that world? All yoga, including the Buddha's yoga, is often called "the path of return" -- a return to our true home, which we eventually come to see was never really lost.

FRANK JUDE BOCCIO

Mindfulness Yoga

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For some reason or the other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured--disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui--in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable.

HENRY MILLER

Tropic of Cancer

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No matter how strong we think our faith is or want it to be, we always want to know that God is there for us, and miracles are that sort of element that bridges the gap between our faith and our connection with God.

MICHAEL O'NEILL

Exploring the Miraculous


The narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue,
And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

WALT WHITMAN

"Song of Myself", Leaves of Grass

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A private man has always the liberty (because thought is free) to believe or not believe in his heart those acts that have been given out for miracles, according as he shall see what benefits can accrue by men's belief, to those that pretend, or countenance them, and thereby conjecture whether they be miracles or lies.

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan

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Miracles do not happen.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

preface, Literature and Dogma

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Miracles are like facts of animal magnetism, or table-turning. They come into existence only where there are people ready beforehand to believe in them.

S. F. S.

The Month, vol. 126


Miracles don't have to be huge and dramatic. They can be small and beautiful like flowers blooming in March, right after a snowfall. They can be a snowflake falling during a summer rain storm. It could be a lost cat finding refuge at your home.

STEPHEN J. NAPOLITANO

Bob Frost


It must be so; for miracles are ceased
And therefore we must needs admit the means
How things are perfected.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry V

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Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

GEORGE SANTAYANA

introduction, The Ethics of Spinoza

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Miracles are like the credentials of an ambassador. They are proof of his authority. Because we accept the miracles of Jesus we can trust the truth of his teachings about God.

TIM DOWLEY

introduction, History of Christianity


However portentous a fact may be, or even supernatural--if such facts exist--however solemnly a miracle may be done in sight of all, the lightning of that fact, the thunderbolt of that miracle is quickly swallowed up in the ocean of life, whose surface, scarcely stirred by the brief convulsion, returns to the level of its habitual flow.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Seraphita

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To deny that a miracle is capable of proof, or to deny that it may be proved by evidence of the same nature as establishes the truth of other events, is, in effect, as I have said, to deny the existence of God. A miracle can be incapable of proof only because it is physically or morally impossible, since what is possible may be proved. To deny that the truth of a miracle may be established involves the denial of creation, for there can be no greater miracle than creation. It equally implies that no species of being that propagates its kind ever had a commencement; for if there was a first plant that grew without seed, or a first man without parents, or if of any series of events there was a first without such antecendents as the laws of nature require, then there was a miracle.

ANDREWS NORTON

"A Discourse on the Latest Form of Infidelity"