Quotes about miracles

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

— St. Augustine

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

— David Ben-Gurion

In order to be realist you must believe in miracles.

— David Ben-Gurion

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?

— Bernard Berenson

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.

— Hal Borland

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.

— Ray Bradbury

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.

— Joyce Cary

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

— Willa Cather

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.

— Willa Cather

Miracle me no miracles.

— Miguel De Cervantes

A transcendent being can be any miracle.

— Wayne Dyer

A am realistic -- I expect miracles.

— Wayne Dyer

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.

— Thomas A. Edison

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.

— Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

— Albert Einstein

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.

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Nancy Gibbs

An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.

— A. P. Herbert

An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— William James

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

— Jean De La Bruyere

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.

— C. S. Lewis

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

— C. S. Lewis

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

— John Locke

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Rutherford Platt

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

— French Proverb

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.

— Bob Richards

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

— Jean Paul Richter

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

— David Sarnoff

It is difficulties that give birth to miracles.

— Dr. Sharpe

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.

— George Bernard Shaw

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.

— Ralph Waldo Trine

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.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.

— Chaim. Weizmann

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

— Walt Whitman

To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

— Walt Whitman

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.

— Marianne Williamson