quotations about miracles
As cheesy as it sounds, I believe in miracles. I do. One happened to me once. Sometimes when I miracle happens, it's like lightning, fast and unexpected. That's what my miracle was like. Other times miracles are like a barrel filling with rainwater. The rain falls in; the water in the barrel gets deeper and deeper. Then one day it spills over the whole world in one big, wet gush. That's the tipping place.
R. A. NELSON
Breathe My Name
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
Some of the miracles do locally what God has already done universally: others do locally what he had not yet done, but will do. In that sense, and from our human point of view, some are reminders and others prophecies.
C. S. LEWIS
God in the Dock
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Ethics
Growing up closes so many doors. The modern world doesn't allow for miracles, so we don't see them. It's a very precious gift, an open mind, but it's not passive. You've got to nurture it like a bed of roses; otherwise it will wither and die. Make sure you don't close off your mind to things you find strange. Sometimes they may be the only truth.
TIM LEBBON
Fears Unnamed
A peculiar feature of the Christian miracles which is constantly ignored by apologists is diabolism. The majority of the miracles ascribed to Jesus consist in the casting out of devils. When we read that "hath a devil" and "is mad" are used as synonymous, and find that the persons said to be "possessed" are also described as lunatic, or with the symptoms of epilepsy, or as suffering from dumbness, lameness and blindness, how can we avoid the suggestion that the New Testament simply reflects the common savage superstition that certain diseases are the work of evil spirits, to be warded off by prayer or other charms of presumed magical efficacy?
LUCIANUS
Progress, August 1886
We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.
JAMES REDFIELD
The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision
For we cannot listen to those who maintain that the invisible God works no visible miracles; for even they believe that He made the world, which surely they will not deny to be visible. Whatever marvel happens in this world, it is certainly less marvelous than this whole world itself.
ST. AUGUSTINE
The City of God
A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to compensate those it has cruelly abandoned.
MARK HELPRIN
Winter's Tale
A miracle is like an accident, and if the same accident keeps happening all the time, then somebody's making a point, aren't they?
KAREN HEULER
The Other Door
Miracles don't happen in a vacuum. There needs to be an openness; a prayerful expectation, and an urgency compelling God from our hearts.
GEORGE GEIGER
Miracles For an Athiest
Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.
ROY T. BENETT
The Light in the Heart
Miracles are like stakes supporting the young tree; when grown, trained, established, of what use are stakes or miracles?
ROBERT ASKWITH TAYLOR
The Bulwark, January 1874
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
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
Miracles are like jokes. They relieve our tension suddenly by setting us free from the chain of cause and effect.
GERALD BRANAN
attributed, Get Unstuck!
Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake.
JULIE ANNE PETERS
Far from Xanadu
It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realized. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.
DAVID BALDACCI
The Whole Truth
Miracles are like winning the lottery, they always happen to other people.
YUNGSI ERNEST KIYAH
To Immigrate or To Live Happily Ever After?
It must be so; for miracles are ceased
And therefore we must needs admit the means
How things are perfected.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry V