quotations about miracles
Miracles are not extraordinary. They are commonplace events that happen at the perfect moment. Small daily miracles are like flowers that bloom for us to pick and cherish. We can develop a talent for recognizing miracles and be introduced to wondrous gifts.
SALLY COLEMAN & MARIA PORTER
Seasons of the Spirit
God creates the vine and teaches it to draw up water by its roots and, with the aid of the sun, to turn that water into a juice which will ferment and take on certain qualities. Thus every year, from Noah's time till ours, God turns water into wine. That, men fail to see. Either like the Pagans they refer the process to some finite spirit, Bacchus or Dionysus: or else, like the moderns, they attribute real and ultimate causality to the chemical and other material phenomena which are all that our sense can discover in it. But when Christ at Cana makes water into wine, the mask is off. The miracle has only half its effect if it only convinces us that Christ is God: it will have its full effect if whenever we see a vineyard or drink a glass of wine we remember that here works He who sat at the wedding party in Cana.
C. S. LEWIS
God in the Dock
A miracle is a supernatural event, whose antecedent forces are beyond our finite vision, whose design is the display of almighty power for the accomplishment of almighty purposes, and whose immediate result, as regards man, is his recognition of God as the Supreme Ruler of all things, and of His will as the only supreme law.
ABBOT ELIOT KITTREDGE
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words
When Jesus performed a miracle he typically told those present not to tell anyone. I think miracles are supposed to be more of a reward for one's faith and really aren't supposed to have any type of sensational aspect to them. The faithful understand what's going on.
BOLT UPRIGHT
user comment, "In Poland, a Reminder of Our Lord's Real Presence in the Eucharist", Church Militant, December 15, 2017
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch'd from,
The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer,
This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.
WALT WHITMAN
"Song of Myself"
If miracles had chemical equations then everyone would believe.
CECELIA AHERN
The Gift
The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to improve them.
JOSÉ SARAMAGO
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
"Notebook A", Aphorisms
A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always showing himself.
LYMAN ABBOTT
Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott
Miracles are like pills which must be swallowed whole without chewing.
SAMUEL HARRIS
The Self-Revelation of God
The whole world is a series of miracles ... but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
Hans Christian Andersen's Shorter Tales
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
G. K. CHESTERTON
"The Blue Cross", The Innocence of Father Brown
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish.
DAVID HUME
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child--our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
THICH NHAT HANH
The Miracle of Mindfulness
Miracles in fact are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. LEWIS
God in the Dock
In the light of the New Creation all miracles are like snowdrops--anticipations of the full spring and high summer which is slowly coming over the whole wintry field of space and time.
C. S. LEWIS
Yours, Jack
Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.
THOMAS AQUINAS
Theological Texts
A good Christian does not care for miracles very much, because a miracle is God looking after His own affairs, and we prefer looking after them for Him.
GEORGES BERNANOS
Joy
When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ
letter to Samuel Clarke, November 1715
A miracle can be viewed simply as a change in perception, and changes in perception can happen over time or instantaneously. Quantum theorists say our consciousness influences the environment that surrounds us. And consciousness is influenced by perception, which means that changes in perception can alter the world around you. Whether you want to look at this from a spiritual point of view, or a scientific point of view--we think it is miraculous that your world can be altered when you see things in a new light.
UCHE ODIATU & KARY ODIATU
introduction, The Miracle of Health