Quotes about miracles

"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."

Augustine, St. on miracles
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"Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist."

Ben-Gurion, David on miracles
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"In order to be realist you must believe in miracles."

Ben-Gurion, David on miracles   

"Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her?"

Berenson, Bernard on miracles   

"For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is."

Borland, Hal on miracles   

"We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts."

Bradbury, Ray on miracles   

"God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing."

Cary, Joyce on miracles   

"Where there is great love there are always miracles."

Cather, Willa on miracles
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"The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always."

Cather, Willa on miracles   

"Miracle me no miracles."

Cervantes, Miguel De on miracles   

"A transcendent being can be any miracle."

Dyer, Wayne on miracles   

"A am realistic -- I expect miracles."

Dyer, Wayne on miracles
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"I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists -- proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision."

Edison, Thomas A. on miracles   

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious."

Freud, Sigmund on miracles   

"For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient."

Gibbs, Nancy on miracles
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"An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected."

Herbert, A. P. on miracles
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"An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it."

Hubbard, Elbert on miracles   

"If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door."

James, William on miracles
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"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

La Bruyere, Jean De on miracles
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"It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere."

Lewis, C. S. on miracles   

"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."

Lewis, C. S. on miracles
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"The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation."

Locke, John on miracles   

"Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines --these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm."

Miller, Henry on miracles   

"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on miracles   

"Don't believe in miracles -- depend on them."

Peter, Laurence J. on miracles   

"Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar."

Picasso, Pablo on miracles
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"We can see a thousand miracles around us every day. What is more supernatural than an egg yolk turning into a chicken?"

Platt, Rutherford on miracles   

"There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them."

Proverb, French on miracles
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"Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles."

Richards, Bob on miracles   

"The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven."

Richter, Jean Paul on miracles   

"Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth."

Sarnoff, David on miracles
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"It is difficulties that give birth to miracles."

Sharpe, Dr. on miracles   

"A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle."

Shaw, George Bernard on miracles
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"A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him."

Trine, Ralph Waldo on miracles   

"The miracles of nature do not seem miracles because they are so common. If no one had ever seen a flower, even a dandelion would be the most startling event in the world."

Unknown, Source on miracles   

"Do anything, even the impossible; it may only take a little longer when a miracle is required."

Unknown, Source on miracles
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"Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them."

Weizmann, Chaim. on miracles   

"Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle."

Whitman, Walt on miracles