quotations about miracles
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
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
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 jokes. They relieve our tension suddenly by setting us free from the chain of cause and effect.
GERALD BRANAN
attributed, Get Unstuck!
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
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
The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been eaten by a whale. I could have married the Queen of England or survived months at sea. But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.
JOHN GREEN
Paper Towns
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
Miracles do not happen.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
preface, Literature and Dogma
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
It must be so; for miracles are ceased
And therefore we must needs admit the means
How things are perfected.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry V
Miracles are like winning the lottery, they always happen to other people.
YUNGSI ERNEST KIYAH
To Immigrate or To Live Happily Ever After?
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