MIRACLES QUOTES IV

quotations about miracles

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 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

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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

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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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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

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

JANDY NELSON

I'll Give You the Sun


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 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


It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer apply. Since most scientists are just a bit religious and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.

WILLIAM GOLDING

Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1983

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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


Miracles are like angels who have sometimes been visible to men, who would much more willingly have introduced them to an acquaintance with the laws and society of heaven, than have filled them with fear and consternation. They are insulated examples of laws as boundless as the universe, and by the manner in which we are affected by them, prove how much we have to learn, and how utterly incompetent we are to judge of the ways of God.

SAMPSON REED

Observations on the Growth of the Mind

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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


How do we make sense of these miracles? Are they literal or figurative? Real or fantasy? Random coincidences or divinely preordained events? Miracles often defy logical and rational explanation precisely because their occurrence is not something that can be reproduced, scientifically studied, or fully understood. Yet during the winter holidays, we celebrate the miracles, welcome the magic of the season, and yearn to believe in Santa Claus.

ANNA YUSIM

"The Role Holiday Traditions Play In Mental Health", Mind Body Green, December 25, 2017


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 like drams--ye can't stop them, once you begin.

FLORA ANNIE WEBSTER STEEL

The Hosts of the Lord


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


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


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


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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In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in such parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue; which is of itself a strong presumption that in the infancy of letters, learning and science, or in the world's non-age, those who confided in miracles, as a proof of the divine mission of the first promulgators of revelation, were imposed upon by fictitious appearances instead of miracles.

ETHAN ALLEN

Reason: The Only Oracle of Man

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