Quotes About Miracles

Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time.

The appointed time is the moment of miracles.

It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.

I've been spending my life among flyspecks... while miracles have been leaning on lampposts at 4th and Fairfax

He found the life of Jesus profoundly moving; the miracles, on the other hand, seemed a barrier to faith, and he tended to explain them to himself in rational terms. It was as though there were only seven loaves and seven fishes. Maybe the miracle was that people shared what they had with strangers, he thought in the darkness.

Hope swears, "You're different, you matter." She whispers, "Miracles happen." She says, often quite reasonably, "New treatments are being developed all the time." She promises, "You'll beat the odds." A hundred to one? A thousand to one? A million to one? "Eight to five", hope lies. Odds are when your time comes, you won't even ask for or against. You'll swing up on that horse and ride.

At first they were just clouds like any other. Then they swelled and swirled; then they hung very still; then they broke open. This is, I suppose, just one of the common miracles, a transformation, not a vision, not an answer, not a proof, but I put it there, close against my heart, where the need is, and it serves the purpose

I wish to work miracles. - from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Los maestros modernos prometen muy poco. Saben que los metales no pueden transmutarse y que el elixir de la vida es sólo una quimera. Pero estos filósofos, cuyas manos parecen hechas sólo para escarbar en la suciedad y cuyos ojos parecen sólo destinados a escudriñar en el microscopio o en el crisol, en realidad han conseguido milagros.

God is frightful, God is great--you pick. I choose this: God is in the details, the completely unnecessary miracles sometimes tossed up as stars to guide us. They are the promise of good fortune in a cloudless day, and the animals in the clouds; look hard enough, and you'll see them. Don't ask if they're real.

The wisteria vines on their own would just barely get by…but put them together with rhizobia and they make miracles.

belief in only one God, the creator of the world, who created everything out of nothing; belief in his Son, Jesus Christ, predicted by the prophets and born of the Virgin Mary; belief in his miraculous life, death, resurrection, and ascension; and belief in the Holy Spirit, who is present on earth until the end, when there will be a final judgment in which the righteous will be rewarded and the unrighteous condemned to eternal torment

people—wondered why such miracles no longer happened. Augustine had a witty response: "I might, indeed, reply that miracles were necessary before the world believed, in order that it might believe. And whoever now-a-days demands to see prodigies that he may believe, is himself a great prodigy, because he does not believe, though the whole world does.

Valerian Kuibyshev, head of the Supreme Council of the Economy, blustered to the party organization in his bailiwick in January 1928. He allowed that the market "could be one current, but a Communist and Bolshevik has always been and is able to swim against the current," and concluded that "the will of the party can create miracles . . . and is creating and will create miracles despite all these market phenomena.

There can be miracles when you believe Though hope is frail It's hard to kill Who knows what miracles You can achieve? When you believe, somehow you will You will when you believe

The application of reason revealed that reports of miracles were dubious, that the authors of holy books were all too human, that natural events unfolded with no regard to human welfare, and that different cultures believed in mutually incompatible deities, none of them less likely than the others to be products of the imagination. (As Montesquieu wrote, "If triangles had a god they would give him three sides.")

cuando las personas aumentan su curiosidad intelectual y su cultura científica, dejan de creer en milagros.

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles.

I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles.

You will never see a portrait of my love, for miracles are never seen.

I believe the impossible is possible to overcome I believe in miracles Born from love in everyone