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Quotes About Miracles

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
~ Hypatia
Miracles, to the Sufi, are not evidential, they are instrumental.
~ Idries Shah
Los milagros, para el Sufi, no son evidentes; son instrumentales.
~ Idries Shah
He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely...
~ Corrie Ten Boom
However, I reasoned, perhaps she had not experienced miracles before.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
the early church fathers provide abundant evidence that gifts such as prophecy and miracles continued in their own time, even if not as abundantly as in the first century. Christians in the medieval and modern periods continued to embrace these activities of the Spirit. It is, in fact, cessationism that is not well documented in earlier history; it seems no coincidence that it arose only in a culture dominated by anti-supernaturalism.
~ Craig Keener
Western theology invariably asks the question: Are miracles possible? This of course addresses the Enlightenment problem of a closed universe. In much of Asia that is a non-question because the miraculous is assumed and fairly regularly experienced.—Hwa Yung
~ Craig S. Keener
He does miracles when we need them—not for our entertainment or to make us feel "spiritual.
~ Craig S. Keener
If the early Christian accounts of dramatic signs make these works seem foreign and foreboding to segments of modern Western academia,[85] they are nevertheless welcome in many of the dynamic churches of Africa, Latin America, and Asia, which believe that they share their experiences.
~ Craig S. Keener
All my life I've been waiting to understand. Look what God has done for me!
~ Unknown
It's the small miracles that happen every day that keep us going. You just have to look for them and believe. ...said by Papa James in Homespun Hearts
~ Unknown
These are marks of a life well lived, and risks taken, and miracles you brought into the world. They're signs of having loved and been loved.
~ Lisa Kleypas
In truth, I find the ocean unnerving. Too vast. I much prefer the forests around Stony Cross. They're always fascinating, and full of commonplace miracles... spiderwebs glittering with rain, new trees growing from the trunks of fallen oaks. I wish you could see them with me. And together we would listen to the wind rushing through the leaves overhead, a lovely swooshy melody... tree music!
~ Lisa Kleypas
They do that, you know. Miracles do. Even in the rainiest of seasons, they break through with their sparks of light and life. You just have to make up your mind not to concentrate on the rain.
~ Unknown
What I really have a sense of dismay about is that there is a center of anything. I think maybe Cleveland can use one. Also possibly Los Angeles needs informed cultural guidance and a place to go get it. But not New York. New York is a center, a world's fair, and a den of thieves, and a house of miracles.
~ Unknown
when all looks the darkest, God works his greatest miracles if you have faith.
~ Unknown
You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!
~ Jim Butcher
I've even heard that they can bring people back from the dead." "Jesus," Butters swore. "I kinda doubt they had anything to do with that one.
~ Jim Butcher
You see, I do believe in miracles. I, who have passed through fire. I do believe.
~ Joanne Harris
Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you
~ Jodi Picoult
Let's downplay the teachings on miracles and teach the values of hard work and diligence.
~ Sunday Adelaja
Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.
~ Bob Richards
Every time you put something positive into the Universe...the world changes a little...your kindness invites miracles to show up. Not just in your world but in the world.
~ Unknown
There are miracles everyday and only the eyes with gratitude can see them, and it also takes a heart with faith to earn them.
~ Terry Mark