Miracles never cease to amaze me. I expect them, but their consistent arrival is always delightful to experience.
—Mark Victor Hansen (b.1948) American Public Speaker, Motivational Speaker, Writer
How about this miracle… God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree. Wow, you can’t have a better arrangement than that. First, it gives God the tough end of the deal. What if you had to make a tree? That would keep you up late at night trying to figure out how to make a tree. God says, “No, leave the miracle part to me. I’ve got the seed, the soil, the sunshine, the rain and the seasons. I’m God and all this miracles stuff is easy for me. I have reserved something very special for you and that is to plant the seed.”
—Jim Rohn (1930–2009) American Entrepreneur, Author, Motivational Speaker
I am realistic, I expect miracles.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.
—John Donne (1572–1631) English Poet, Cleric
Anyone who doesn’t believe in miracles is not a realist.
—David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973) Russian-born Israeli Head of State
A miracle is a work exceeding the power of any created agent, consequently being an effect of the divine omnipotence.
—Robert South (1634–1716) English Theologian, Preacher
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 (b.1920) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
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 (1865–1959) Russian-born American Art Historian
A good religion does not need miracles.
—Japanese Proverb
Do anything, even the impossible; it may only take a little longer when a miracle is required.
—Unknown
The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
—Jean Paul (1763–1825) German Novelist, Humorist
A miracle I take to be a sensible operation, which being above the comprehension of the spectator, and in his opinion contrary to the established course of nature, is taken by him to be divine.
—John Locke (1632–1704) English Philosopher, Physician
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish Painter, Sculptor, Artist
I know this world is ruled by Infinite Intelligence. It required Infinite Intelligence to create it and it requires Infinite Intelligence to keep it on its course. 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 Edison (1847–1931) American Inventor, Scientist, Entrepreneur
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
—John Locke (1632–1704) English Philosopher, Physician
A cask of wine works more miracles than a church full of saints.
—Italian Proverb
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 (1888–1957) English Novelist, Artist
The place where light and dark begin to touch is where miracles arise.
—Robert S. Johnson (1920–98) American Military Leader
Miracles 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 (1898-1963) Irish-born British Academic, Author, Literary Scholar
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
—Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist, American, Poet, Essayist, Journalist
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 (1898-1963) Irish-born British Academic, Author, Literary Scholar
In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–81) Russian Novelist, Essayist, Writer
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
—Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist, American, Poet, Essayist, Journalist
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
—Buddhist Teaching
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 (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
Miracles are instantaneous; they cannot be summoned, but they come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.
—Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) American Short-Story Writer, Novelist
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.
—Unknown
I have found in life that if you want a miracle you first need to do whatever it is you can do—if that’s to plant, then plant; if it is to read, then read; if it is to change, then change; if it is to study, then study; if it is to work, then work; whatever you have to do. And then you will be well on your way of doing the labor that works miracles.
—Jim Rohn (1930–2009) American Entrepreneur, Author, Motivational Speaker
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
A Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Don’t look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.
—Henry Miller (1891–1980) American Novelist
Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
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 (1873–1947) American Novelist, Writer
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
—Augustine of Hippo (354–430) Roman-African Christian Philosopher
Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them
—George Meredith (1828–1909) British Novelist, Poet, Critic
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
—Robert H. Schuller (1926–2015) American Christian Televangelist, Author
Only believe in the faith of a woman as you would believe in miracles.
—German Proverb
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
—William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
Do not stand in a dangerous place trusting in miracles.
—Arabic Proverb
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
—Charles Lindbergh (1902–74) American Aviator, Inventor, Conservationist
Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.
—Deepak Chopra (b.1946) Indian-born American Physician, Public Speaker, Writer
Miracles are the swaddling clothes of infant churches.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul.
—Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American Polymath, Essayist, Novelist, Philosopher, Playwright
Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.
—David Sarnoff (1891–1972) American Broadcaster, Businessman
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
—Louise Hay (b.1926) American Author
For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
—Bill Cosby (b.1937) American Actor, Comedian, Activist, Producer, Author
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines—these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
—Henry Miller (1891–1980) American Novelist
Every believer is God’s miracle.
—Gamaliel Bailey (1807–59) American Journalist