| Author |
Quotes |
| A P Herbert | An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected." |
| Aaron Hill | When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd. |
| Alexander Pope | Accept a miracle, instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ. |
| Arabian Proverb | Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles. |
| Bernard Berenson | 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? |
| Alexander Pope | Accept a miracle; instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ. |
| Dalai Lama | Had Tibet not fallen away from dharma China could not have invaded. . |
| Edward Young | What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too. |
| Ethan Allen | 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. |
| Jean de la Bruyere | Out of difficulties grow miracles. |
| Jean Ingelow | Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Behold, "There is a God," thou sayest. Thou sayest well: In that thou sayest all. To Be is more Of wonderful, than being, to have wrought, Or reigned, or rested. |
| Laurence J Peter | Don't believe in miracles -- depend on them. |
| Louis D Brandeis | 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. |
| Matthew Arnold | All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science. |
| Nancy Gibbs | For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient. |
| Paul Goodman | "God works in many ways His wonders to perform." But He's not a skillful mechanic. A man drived over a cliff and "by a miracle" he only breaks his back. It would be more divine if he were a better driver and stayed on the road. |
| Peggy Noonan | I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see. |
| Philip James Bailey | Every believer is God's miracle. |
| Richard Crashaw | Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again. |
| Richard Crashaw | 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. |
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