quotations about miracles
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
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
Miracles are like sign language. To those blessed with an unexplainable cure, they are the means by which God communicates.
MAURA POSTON ZAGRANS
Miracles Every Day
It must be so; for miracles are ceased
And therefore we must needs admit the means
How things are perfected.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry V
The world was made of miracles, unexpected earthquakes, storms that came from nowhere and might reshape a continent. The boy beside her. The future before her. Anything was possible.
LEIGH BARDUGO
Crooked Kingdom
How grateful I am that the day of faith and the age of miracles are not past history but continue with us even now.
THOMAS S. MONSON
LDS Church News, January 3, 2018
Truly miracles are like wine, and vastly improve with age.
LUCIANUS
Progress, August 1886
If you hold this
Dazzling emerald
Up to the sky,
It will shine a billion
Beautiful miracles
Painted from the tears
Of the Most High.
SUZY KASSEM
Rise Up and Salute the Sun
Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.
DANIEL HANDLER
as Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival
To say that miracles don't happen is to be dogmatic without warrant. To insist that they should be normative is to be expectant without wisdom. To believe that they serve God's purpose in his time is to be reverent and worshipful.
STUART BRISCOE
The One Year Book of Devotions for Men
Unfortunately, miracles are hard to come by in this thing we call life, but if the opening of a sea turtle nest doesn't make you a believer, precious little ever will.
KEVIN RAUB
"A perfect day in Brazil's aquatic Eden", CNN, January 4, 2018
Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
The Brothers Karamazov
Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
introduction, The Ethics of Spinoza
Every believer is God's miracle.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Festus
The days of miracles have passed. I do not believe, of course, that there was ever any day of actual miracles. I cannot understand that there were ever any miracles at all. My guide must be my reason, and at thought of miracles my reason is rebellious.
THOMAS EDISON
interview, Columbian, 1911
I believe miracles are like seeds. When planted and watered by our attention and appreciation, they bloom.
JAMES VAN PRAAGH
Heaven and Earth
From a scientific standpoint, a miracle is anything that is statistically improbable. Miracles are the opposite of traditions. Traditions are predictable and repetitive, something you can count on with certainty year after year. In contrast, miracles are unpredictable, unexpected, and unanticipated. The more unlikely an event, the more miraculous. In this way, a tradition of miracles is an oxymoron.
ANNA YUSIM
"The Role Holiday Traditions Play In Mental Health", Mind Body Green, December 25, 2017
Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themeselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER
Ship of Fools
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
Like the biblical Christ who sometimes comes in the stranger's guise, or the angels who visit us unawares, some of the miracles are unrecognizable when they come into our lives, but if we're lucky, they remain with us long enough so we finally know the magnitude of the gift and the courage of the giver.
CATHY CASH SPELLMAN
"A Christmas Story", Huffington Post, December 22, 2017