quotations about miracles
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
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
Every believer is God's miracle.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Festus
It is far easier for the God of the universe to perform what we call a miracle, than for the signalman from his box to shunt great engines and their trains. Rationalists who deny miracles are like men who, knowing nothing of the working of a railway system, affirm that trains must always run on fixed lines--that they run of themselves--and can never be diverted from their ordinary track. Such ignorance, were it possible, would simply mean that they knew nothing about the signal-box.
ADA R. HABERSHON
The Study of Miracles
I believe miracles are like seeds. When planted and watered by our attention and appreciation, they bloom.
JAMES VAN PRAAGH
Heaven and Earth
Miracles are like the pedal to the playing of the Divine musician. God does not by these means correct his instrument Nature; He makes it subservient in an exceptional manner to the superior needs of man.
FREDERIC LOUIS GODET
Lectures in Defence of the Christian Faith
Miracles are like wine: they are of little use unless they be venerably old. We pay no attention to a miracle happening under our nose; but, if the same miracle had been said to have happened in remote ages in an obscure part of the world, and vouched for by convicted and self-admitted liars like the Christian Fathers, we should have believed in it and been ready to apply the rack and fagot to all who doubted. A profane falsehood becomes a sacred truth, if it be only told long enough and by pious enough imposters, better educated and better placed than the fools upon whom they exercise their imposition.
SALADIN
The Secular Review, January 16, 1886
We cannot but believe that all miracles, whether wrought by angels or by other means, so long as they are so done as to commend the worship and religion of the one God in whom alone is blessedness, are wrought by those who love us in a true and godly sort, or through their means, God Himself working in them.
ST. AUGUSTINE
The City of God
Miracles don't just happen for some and not for others. They occur when specific conditions are nurtured. Like a seed, with the right minerals, water, air, and sunshine, anyone, no matter who you are or what you have done in the past, can begin creating practical miracles.
JOHN GRAY
Practical Miracles for Mars and Venus
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
The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.
DAVID BALDACCI
The Forgotten