Quotes
Quotes about Miracles
They say miracles are past.
Miracles are great, but they are so damned unpredictable.
Miracles are great, but they are so damned unpredictable.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
Beginning a short series on topics of Christian apologetics: If we are prepared to admit, even as a possibility, that Jesus was divine, or even that without being divine he was unique, then we must, as a matter of logic, discard any attempt to discredit the Gospel accounts on the ground that they record miracles.
Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics: I desire to exercise my faith in the most difficult point, for to credit ordinary and visible objects is not faith, but persuasion. Some believe the better for seeing Christ's Sepulchre, and when they have seen the Red Sea, doubt not the miracle. Now contrarily I bless myself, and am thankful that I lived not in the days of miracles, that I never saw Christ nor His Disciples; I would not have been one of those Israelites that passed the Red Sea, nor one of Christ's patients, on whom He wrought His wonders; then had my faith been thrust upon me, nor should I enjoy that greater blessing pronounced to all that believe and saw not.
Don't stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
Guilt is a sure sign your thinking is unnatural. * HS was the amanuensis for the Course In Miracles.
Where there is great love there are always miracles. -Willa Cather.
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.
It must be so, for miracles are ceased And therefore we must needs admit the means How things are perfected.
Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
Don't believe in miraclesâdepend on them.
There were miracles long before Christianity.
In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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?
The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always. -Willa Cather.
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. (Helen Schucman over 7 years wrote the Course In Miracles).
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.
