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The mind is constantly open to repetitive influences.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Influence is independent of numbers. Influencing positive change in one person is still influence.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Avoid letting outside influences have a chance to affect your thoughts.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Satanic blindness comes from the influence of human teachers who teach from head knowledge and not heart knowledge combined.
— John M Sheehan
Influence is like the lottery, you have to be in it to win it
— Prechard Mhako
When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose your self-worth in the process.
— Auliq Ice
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
Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen. 
— Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.
— Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.
— Lemony Snicket, The Lump of Coal
It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t. 
— Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle
His hands are miracles. I can watch them for hours, transforming wood into something it never dreamed of being.
— Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility
Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear. Some people say that a sunrise is a miracle, because it is somewhat mysterious and often very beautiful, but other people say it is simply a fact of life, because it happens every day and far too early in the morning. Some people say that a telephone is a miracle, because it sometimes seems wondrous that you can talk with somebody who is thousands of miles away, and other people say it is merely a manufactured device fashioned out of metal parts, electronic circuitry, and wires that are very easily cut. And some people say that sneaking out of a hotel is a miracle, particularly if the lobby is swarming with policemen, and other people say it is simply a fact of life, because it happens every day and far too early in the morning. So you might think that there are so many miracles in the world that you can scarcely count them, or that there are so few that they are scarcely worth mentioning, depending on whether you spend your mornings gazing at a beautiful sunset or lowering yourself into a back alley with a rope made of matching towels.
— Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival
Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
The shadow proves the sunshine.
— Switchfoot
I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle.
— Julie Berry, All the Truth That's in Me
Break the glass, I thought to myself, because it is a symbolic gesture. Try to understand that within myself, things were breaking of much more importance than a glass, and I’m happy for that. Look to your own inner struggles and break this glass.Our parents taught us to be careful with glasses and with our bodies. They taught us that the passions of childhood are impossible; we should not remove men from the priesthood, that people do not perform miracles and that no one goes on a journey without knowing where he wants to go.Break this cup, please, I thought to myself, and release of all these damn misconceptions, the habit you have of only doing that which everyone agrees with.
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.
— Dana Reinhardt, The Summer I Learned to Fly
What's this?" She pulled out a card and held it away from her face. "I can't read what it says." I took it from her and read it aloud.1. Beeber Bifocal2. Twenty Mile House3. Bee4. Your escapeFourteen miracles to go.
— Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette
She righted herself, her balance returning. Had she really thought the world didn't change? She was a fool. The world was made of miracles, unexpected earthquakes, storms that came from nowhere and might reshape a continent. The boy beside her. The future before her. Anything was possible.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.
— Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
— François Mauriac
Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something truly miraculous happens, we run and hide in our caves. We deny.
— Libba Bray, Going Bovine
October had tremendous possibility. The summer's oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles.
— Sarah Guillory, Reclaimed
The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
What I have learned from the year past is something about miracles--miracles of healing and answered prayer and unexpected happy endings. Each came quietly and simply, on tiptoe, so that I hardly knew it had occurred.All this makes me realize that miracles are everyday things. Not only the sudden, great good fortune, wafting in on a new wind from the sky. They are almost routine, yet miracles just the same.Every time something hard becomes easier; every time you adjust to a situation which, last week, you didn't know existed; every time a kindness falls as softly as the dew; or someone you love who was ill grows better; every time a blessing comes, not with trumpet and fanfare, but silently as night, you have witnessed a miracle.
— Faith Baldwin, Many Windows, Seasons of the Heart
My life and most people's lives are a series of little miracles -- strange coincidences which spring from uncontrollable impulses and give rise to incomprehensible dreams. We spend a lot of time pretending that we are normal, but underneath the surface each one of us knows that he or she is unique.
— Colin Clark, My Week With Marilyn
Miracles only happen if you believe in miracles.
— Paulo Coelho
Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy.
— Marguerite de Valois
I called up to Mama, "Is this a miracle?" She raised and lowered her shoulders. Her voice drifted down, "Maybe. Or maybe this is just what's supposed to be.
— Edward Kelsey Moore, The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
it will be miraculous, very miraculous.
— Malika Oufkir, Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
What other hope does life hold outBut the miraculous, the skilled and patientExecution, the teamwork, all the pain and worry every miracle involves?
— Weldon Kees, The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees
For what purpose have you prayed?""For thanks. If I must die, at least I have lived. If my companions have perished, at least I have known them. If the world is cruel, at least I have tasted kindness. I had to cross to the far side of the sky to taste it but, as you say, the world is full of miracles.
— Michael Flynn, Eifelheim
It was to be a day of queer experiences. He had never realized with how many miracles mere everyday life is besieged.
— Walter de la Mare, The Return
The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.
— James S.A. Corey, Abaddon's Gate
So many miracles have not yet happened.
— Kate DiCamillo, Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures
Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
— Dallas Willard
Symbols are miracles we have recorded into language.
— S. Kelley Harrell
But when ﬁrst the two black dragons sprang out of the fog upon the small clerk, they had merely the eﬀect of all miracles – they changed the universe. He discovered the fact that all romantics know – that adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the cord of monotony is stretched most tight, it it breaks with a sound like song.
— G.K. Chesterton
God has more powerful aways to show Himself than any human postulate.And yet, a postulate is the highest form of prayer.
— Robin Sacredfire
This moment is full of miracles.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Claims for theoccurrence of miraculous events will have to be evaluated ona case-by-case basis. There can be no general theory to coverthe character of unique events, but the refusal to contemplatethe possibility of revelatory disclosures of an unprecedentedkind would be an unacceptable limitation, imposed arbitrarilyon the horizons of religious thought.
— John Polkinghorne
The misery of the moment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
...the early church fathers provide abundant evidence that gifts such as prophecy and miracles continued in their own time, even if not as abundantly as in the first century. Christians in the medieval and modern periods continued to embrace these activities of the Spirit. It is, in fact, cessationism that is not well documented in earlier history; it seems no coincidence that it arose only in a culture dominated by anti-supernaturalism.
— Craig Keener
If you want the miracle to happen, you have to create the space for it.
— R.A.Delmonico
We are insulting God by constantly depending and looking forward for miracles.
— Sunday Adelaja
There is more evil than good when we preach the miracle centered gospel instead of the kingdom gospel.
— Sunday Adelaja
Miracle centered gospels cripple the present and generations to come.
— Sunday Adelaja
A gospel that is focused on miracle is creating fraudulent act.
— Sunday Adelaja
Miracles are instant gratification without a guarantee of any long term result.
— Sunday Adelaja
Miracle is the ability God has given you.
— Sunday Adelaja
We are not supposed to run after miracles but we are supposed to run after self-perfection, self-growth, self - improvements.
— Sunday Adelaja
The only condition that miracles will come is after you have done your best.
— Sunday Adelaja
If we don’t do our best and constantly ask God for miracles, it means we are objurgating our responsibility to God.
— Sunday Adelaja
There are so many downsides to the message of looking for miracles.
— Sunday Adelaja
When we over emphasis that we need God for every little thing, then we begin to depend on miracles.
— Sunday Adelaja
The messages emphasizing miracles and breakthrough must be replaced if our nation must move forward.
— Sunday Adelaja
To see the miracle, you must be the miracle.
— Jennifer Ho-Dougatz
Miracles cut corners and beat rules.
— Sunday Adelaja
Any nation that teaches and makes it's people look for miracles is making it's people shallow.
— Sunday Adelaja
We overemphasise miracles when we are supposed to be planning and be thinking forward.
— Sunday Adelaja
Gospel of miracles is bringing about corruption in our country.
— Sunday Adelaja
If you say merit does not matter but miracles or favor matters, you are equally destroying yourself and nation.
— Sunday Adelaja
There is so much evil in emphasizing too much miracles.
— Sunday Adelaja
The only person that deserves to ask for miracles is someone who is qualified.
— Sunday Adelaja
You don’t look for miracles, you don’t search for miracles, miracles is supposed to follow you.
— Sunday Adelaja
Merit is better than miracles.
— Sunday Adelaja
The miracle centered gospel leads to getting something from nothing.
— Sunday Adelaja
When we overemphasise miracles we underplay values.
— Sunday Adelaja
When we overemphasise miracles we underplay kingdom principles.
— Sunday Adelaja
When we overemphasise miracles, we compromise the gospel we were asked to preach.
— Sunday Adelaja
When we overemphasise miracles, we think we are preaching but we are emphasizing on the wrong thing.
— Sunday Adelaja
Messages focused on miracles has eliminated stewardship messages.
— Sunday Adelaja
When you begin to run after miracles, Jesus feels insulted.
— Sunday Adelaja
Instead of looking for miracles why believe so strong in invisible virtues like dignity of labor.
— Sunday Adelaja
Once people get to the promise land, they have to perform miracles by themselves.
— Sunday Adelaja
When you begin to expect miracles, Jesus feels insulted.
— Sunday Adelaja
Jesus expect miracles to run after you, He does not expect you to run after miracles.
— Sunday Adelaja
You should not reduce yourself to any that runs after miracles.
— Sunday Adelaja
Miracles should run after you and not you running after miracles.
— Sunday Adelaja
When you begin to run after miracles you reduce yourself.
— Sunday Adelaja
When you begin to run after miracles you dehumanize yourself.
— Sunday Adelaja
When we teach people to run after miracles, we make them helpless.
— Sunday Adelaja
When we teach people to run after miracles, we make them shallow men.
— Sunday Adelaja
Hospitals are better and more reliable than miracle crusades.
— Sunday Adelaja
God is still in the miracle working business. He's still the same God yesterday, today and forevermore.
— Prophetess Dina Rolle
Can’t count on no miracles. Sometimes, you just got to have a plan.
— J.D.  Jordan, Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ
Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time.
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
If we want a miracle, we’ve got to surrender all our faith.
— Toni Sorenson, Aligned By Christ
Do you know that you being here with that gun in your hand is more wondrous than the parting of the Red Sea? For someone like God, it would be easy to command the skies, the waters, the rocks. But to change a man’s heart, for a man to choose to come here and acknowledge his helplessness, now, that is the province of miracles.
— V.J. Campilan, All My Lonely Islands
Stop looking for miracles through mystic way
— Sunday Adelaja
The mentality of seeking miracles from one place to another is destructive to the economy
— Sunday Adelaja
Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception
— Sunday Adelaja
In a remarkable midrash (commentary) on Proverbs, we read the following: “All of the festivals will be abolished in the future [the Messianic Age], but Purim will never be abolished.”The miracle of Purim is very different from the miracles mentioned in the Torah. While the latter were overt miracles, such as the ten plagues in Egypt and the splitting of the Red Sea, the miracle of Purim was covert. No law of nature was violated in the Purim story and the Jews were saved by seemingly normal historical occurrences. Had we lived in those days, we would have noticed nothing unusual. Only retroactively are we astonished that seemingly unrelated and insignificant human acts led to the redemption of the Jews. The discovery that these events concealed a miracle could only be made after the fact.Covert miracles will never cease to exist explains the Torah Temimah. In fact, they take place every day. The midrash on Proverbs is not suggesting that the actual festivals mentioned in the Torah will be nullified in future days. Rather we should read the midrash as follows: Overt miracles, which we celebrate on festivals mentioned in the Torah, no longer occur. But covert miracles such as those celebrated on Purim will never end; they continue to occur every day of the year. Purim, probably rooted in a historical event of many years ago, functions as a constant reminder that the Purim story never ended. We are still living it. The Megillah is open-ended; it was not and will never be completed!
— Nathan Lopes Cardozo, Foreword to A Damaged Mirror: A story of memory and redemption: Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo discusses prophecy and memory
Jews have been an ever-dying people that never died. They have experienced a continuous resurrection, like the dry bones that Ezekiel saw in the valley. This has become the sine qua non of every Jew. It is the mystery of the hidden miracle of survival in the face of overwhelming destruction. Our refusal to surrender has turned our story into one long, unending Purim tale.
— Nathan Lopes Cardozo, Foreword to A Damaged Mirror: A story of memory and redemption: Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo discusses prophecy and memory
[I]t is no doubt true that our image of what a messiah might look like may keep us from recognizing the real thing when it stands before us. Could it be that we have embellished the long-awaited event with so many aggadic flourishes that we can no longer recognize the reality when it happens? Could our overly literal reading of our sages’ poetic descriptions have led us to overlook completely the miracle as it happened? One of the dangers of taking the statements and speculations of our sages as literal truth—when they were not meant as such—is the distortion of our expectations.
— Nathan Lopes Cardozo, Foreword to A Damaged Mirror: A story of memory and redemption: Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo discusses prophecy and memory
Why not believe in miracles, create them, invite them for dinner, and offer them a place to stay every single day? Just because we have not doesn’t mean we cannot.
— Kelly Corbet, Already Here: The Matter of Love
Don't you believe people when they tell you that people sought for a sign, and believed in miracles because they were ignorant. They did it because they were wise, filthily, vilely wise—too wise to eat or sleep or put on their boots with patience.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Miracles and bliss are the norm.
— Kelly Corbet, Already Here: The Matter of Love
You may regard yourself as a accident from the cosmos, but I prefer to think of you as a miracle.
— R.A.Delmonico
Love will let you want and trust in Miracles.
— Prakash Hegade
I am aware that true miracles, things unexplained by human reason, can only occur when Jesus does them.
— Gail  Davis, Miracle of Faith
What is the verdict?”“There is always hope.” His face softened. “However, it’s unlikely your brain damage will improve.”He’d given me the answer I’d expected and dreaded.I shut my eyes and sagged into the pillows. I’d braced myself for this result, but I’d wanted a miracle so badly that it was painful to hear the truth.Sunlight pressed in on me, trying to cheer me up. I would resist a moment longer. This room, the quilt, my closed eyes—they formed a serene barrier against the world, although it wasn’t clear to me if I wanted to keep the scary stuff out or the scared me in.
— Elizabeth Langston
To see the miracle you must be the miracle.
— Jennifer Ho-Dougatz
The two had very little figured out. They were trying though. They fell in love. They looked for God. They loved constructing miracles out of the mundane. Above all things, they cheered for each other. And they made each other stronger. And that meant everything.
— Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
Sometimes you know that you are destined to die, but somehow you are given a parenthesis after the punctuation mark: more years, more time that wasn’t meant for you but still was meant for you, a bridge stretching out into the stars, a confidence built of invisible threads, a miracle.
— Lene Fogelberg, Beautiful Affliction
Even when I was young and content and thought life would bring good things for me and mine, I didn't believe in miracles.
— Juliet Marillier, Tower of Thorns
Dew settles without the fanfare of thunder or patter of falling rain, yet our wet feet in the morning still tell us there is something there. Sometimes miracles are like that. There is no overwhelming proof, but deep inside we know.
— Chris Stewart, Ted Stewart
The miracles of life are love, faith and hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Faith isn't hearing the voice of God. It's listening and hearing nothing, but moving toward the miracle anyway. God hears us even when we don't hear him. Knowing that requires real faith.
— Toni Sorenson
There are miracles even reactivity can't pull off, Ender
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Look at all the people who received miracles from Jesus during His ministry on earth. Not a single one of them deserved it.
— Paul Silway
Everyone prays to his own god, that's why miracles happen to some and not to others
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
No pressure, Jack. All we need is a miracle.
— Kenneth Eade, Absolute Intolerance
Miracles happen everyday, you just need to be looking the right way.
— L.J. Vanier, Ether: Into the Nemesis
Your will to stay gives miracles a reason to show up!
— Anuranjita Kumar, Can I have it all?
Even people who've never seen a miracle can believe in miracles.
— Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia
People can be miracles.
— Ally Condie, Atlantia
The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never get struck by lightning, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.
— John Green, Paper Towns
Reach for something out of the ordinary. You must dare to even come close.
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
White Space is where the world and all distraction falls away. Where the voice of the Divine can be heard. Where the Truth of who you are is found. Where miracles happen.
— Valerie Rickel
What we call miracles is just what's supposed to happen. We either go with it or stand in its way.
— Edward Kelsey Moore
I used to feel spiritually inferior because I had not experienced the more spectacular manifestations of the Spirit and could not point to any bona fide “miracles” in my life. Increasingly, though, I have come to see that what I value may differ greatly from what God values. Jesus, often reluctant to perform miracles, considered it progress when he departed earth and entrusted the mission to his flawed disciples. Like a proud parent, God seems to take more delight as a spectator of the bumbling achievements of stripling children than in any self-display of omnipotence. From God’s perspective, if I may speculate, the great advance in human history may be what happened at Pentecost, which restored the direct correspondence of spirit to Spirit that had been lost in Eden. I want God to act in direct, impressive, irrefutable ways. God wants to “share power” with the likes of me, accomplishing his work through people, not despite them.
— Philip Yancey, Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?
The time of the third millennium is the time when the people of God will walk, covered byGod’s glory, performing great wonders and miracles.
— Sunday Adelaja
In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.
— David Ben-Gurion
Maybe He’s already given you a miracle. You just can’t see it.
— Rachelle Ayala, Christmas Stray
The sage of Nazareth may satisfy those who have never faced the problem of evil in their own lives; but to talk about an ideal to those who are under the thralldom of sin is a cruel mockery. Yet if Jesus was merely a man like the rest of men, then an ideal is all that we have in Him. Far more is needed by a sinful world. It is small comfort to be told that there was goodness in the world, when what we need is goodness triumphant over sin. But goodness triumphant over sin involves an entrance of the creative power of God, and that creative power of God is manifested by the miracles. Without the miracles, the New Testament might be easier to believe. But the thing that would be believed would be entirely different from that which presents itself to us now. Without the miracles we should have a teacher; with the miracles we have a Savior.
— J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism
The sage of Nazareth may satisfy those who have never faced the problem of evil in their own lives; but to talk about an ideal to those who are under the thralldom of sin is a cruel mockery. Yet if Jesus was merely a man like the rest of men, then an ideal is all that we have in Him. Far more is needed by a sinful world. It is small comfort to be told that there was goodness in the world, when what we need is goodness triumphant over sin. But goodness triumphant over sin involves an entrance of the creative power of God, and that creative power of God is manifested by the miracles. Without the miracles, the New Testament might be easier to believe. But the thing that would be believed would be entirely different from
— J. Gresham Machen
* Thoughts are energy, energy is matter, and matter doesn’t disappear.* Pay attention to coincidence.* You can choose your identity." And a recent one: Only the present moment matters.
— Wunder Wend
Actually, the “leap of faith”—to give it the memorable name that Soren Kierkegaard bestowed upon it—is an imposture. As he himself pointed out, it is not a “leap” that can be made once and for all. It is a leap that has to go on and on being performed, in spite of mounting evidence to the contrary. This effort is actually too much for the human mind, and leads to delusions and manias. Religion understands perfectly well that the “leap” is subject to sharply diminishing returns, which is why it often doesn’t in fact rely on “faith” at all but instead corrupts faith and insults reason by offering evidence and pointing to confected “proofs.” This evidence and these proofs include arguments from design, revelations, punishments, and miracles. Now that religion’s monopoly has been broken, it is within the compass of any human being to see these evidences and proofs as the feeble-minded inventions that they are.
— Christopher Hitchens, god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
But, oh, how precious those things were! To look at the sky, breathe the cold wind, have fingers nipped by chill and skin stung red and heart stirred to life, gods, he had been dead until Tristen arrived and asked him the first vexing question, and posed him the first insoluble puzzle, and marveled at hailstones and mourned over falling leaves. What miracles there were all around....
— C.J. Cherryh, Fortress of Owls
Were the seeds of next things always there, in the circle of the year, and was that how the world worked its miracles?
— C.J. Cherryh, Fortress of Eagles
He does miracles when we need them—not for our entertainment or to make us feel “spiritual.
— Craig S. Keener, Gift & Giver: The Holy Spirit for Today
Miracles are just formal requests, Shara thinks wildly. It's like having a form preprinted and filled out and handing it in to get exactly what you want! But you don't always have to do it that way! You can make it up as you go along, so long as you do it right!
— Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs
My heart is filled with great joy.I am so thankful to God for miraculously saving my life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Miracles do happen, but, not always the way you expect them
— Rizwan R. Khan
Explaining a miracle doesn't make it any less of a miracle.
— Athan Fletcher, The Swordsman and The Priestess
Today like every day roughly 5,000 people on the face of the planet will experience one-chance-in-a-million things and not one of them will refuse to believe the evidence of their senses.
— Jill Thompson
The fact that God is sovereign over the distribution of gifts (1 Cor. 12:7) is no reason not to seek the gifts. God is sovereign over our food too, but though he desires to provide it for his children (see Matt. 6:25–34) and wants us to seek his kingdom first (Matt. 6:9–10, 33), he expects us to pray for him to provide our food (Matt. 6:11; 7:7–11).
— Craig S. Keener, Gift & Giver: The Holy Spirit for Today
JUST BECAUSE A BUNCH OF ATHEISTS ARE BETTER WRITERS THAN THE GUYS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE THEM RIGHT!" [Owen Meany] said crossly. "LOOK AT THOSE WEIRDO TV MIRACLE-WORKERS--THEY'RE TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO BELIEVE IN MAGIC! BUT THE REAL MIRACLES AREN'T ANYTHING YOU CAN SEE--THEY'RE THINGS YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE WITHOUT SEEING. IF SOME PREACHER'S AN ASSHOLE, THAT'S NOT PROOF THAT GOD DOESN'T EXIST!
— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
— William  Gibson, The Miracle Worker
It's all—let's use a very specific word here—miraculous. You, me, love, quarks, sex, chocolate, the speed of light—it's all miraculous, and it always has been.
— Rob Bell, What We Talk about When We Talk about God
Beyond miracles, what has lasting significance is love. It wasn’t that Jesus healed a leper, but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.
— Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
I am the salt of the earth, and I do not believe in the ninety percent rigmarole that is organized religion. But miracles? Miracles, my friend are a different thing entirely. From what I can see, miracles are built from love, and as far as love is concerned, I am a true believer.
— Lorna Landvik, Oh My Stars
The resurrection cannot be tamed or tethered by any utilitarian test. It is a vast watershed in history, or it is nothing. It cannot be tested for truth; it is the test of lesser truths. No light can be thrown on it; its own light blinds the investigator. It does not compel belief; it resists it. But once accepted as fact, it tells more about the universe, about history, and about man's state and fate that all the mountains of other facts in the human accumulation.
— LIFE Magazine
We only get either A Lesson or A Miracle.
— Ira N. Barin
Why are you all quarrelling about whether certain miracles were or were not performed nineteen centuries ago in Palestine? Why must you be certain of those particular miracles, before you can believe in God? To-day, at this very moment, you are surrounded by miracles. Birth, death, sunrise, springtime, winter—are not all these miracles? You have forgotten them because you see them every day. In your silly self-conceit, you assure yourselves that all this is perfectly natural, and that science has long ago explained it all—but you forget that your science has only noted the existence of these miracles, and that their secret belongs as much as ever to the Almighty Ruler of the Universe in whom you find it so difficult to believe.
— Aimée Dostoyevsky, The Emigrant
The wonder of life is in the miracle of life. There is spectacle, there is awe and there is incredulity. The blunder of life is in the greediness of Man from Abel and Cain to the City of Sodom and concurrently to the conflict in the Gaza Strip.
— Anthony Pan
MIRACLES ARE THE NATURAL EXPRESSIONOF OUR PERFECT FREEDOM IN GOD ~WHERE THE SUBSTANCE OF LIFE FLOWS FREELYAND LIMITLESSLY ON OUR BEHALF.MIRACLES ARE OURS BY DIVINE RIGHT ~FOR WE ARE BORN OF THE SUBSTANCE OFAN INFINITE AND IMMORTAL LOVE!
— Linda De Coff, LIVING THE MIRACLE CONSCIOUSNESS, Attaining the Kingdom of Greatest Eternal Good! ~: Heaven on Earth!
It a great miracle that I am alive.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Take time to see the quiet miracles thatseek no attention
— John O'Donohue
Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.
— Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Look for Miracles
— S.A.R.K.
Miracles happen quietly every day—in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a roadside stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.But now and then, a miracle is declared to the world.And when that happens, things change
— Mitch Albom, The First Phone Call from Heaven
You don’t need miracles in the west. You have insurance.
— Brother Yun
An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.
— Francis Crick, Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature
...some of the miracles do locally what God has already done universally: others do locally what He has not yet done, but will do.
— C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock
The defining moment when we finally admit, “I can’t do this alone. Its too much for me. Take it.”That’s the moment our heart cracks open, our will pours out and Christ stands ready with his arms stretched wide and his smile even wider.That’s the moment a miracle is born.
— Toni Sorenson
Never lose hope because although miracles are rare, they are possible.
— Anonymous
Miracles are commonplace in religious scripture. Our ancient ancestors are said to have felt Jesus' wounds, verified Muhammad's ascent to heaven, and even interacted with their respective deities directly. Today, believers have no such luxury. They are forced to rely on blind faith that these things occurred, that people were at one time able to overcome or render inert natural laws.
— David G. McAfee
We were a different kind of Christian, the quiet, reasonable kind, a breed embarrassed by the mention of miracles.
— Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
When you look at a natural beauty, it also looks at you! Since both the viewer and the viewed are miracles, two miracles look at each other in admiration!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water!
— Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
When we would say 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing. And the one who gave it would savor the surprise.
— Max Lucado, Celebrating Christmas with Jesus: An Advent Devotional
I refer to them as miracles-although some may call them fortunate circumstances-because I believe there are no accidents or surprises with God.
— Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life
You're a miracle, Walker. Your fingers are. Your toes are. Your crushing sadness and guilt are.
— Ron Koertge, Coaltown Jesus
Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I'll be allowing something immediate influence of God on creation still?
— Jonathan Edwards
Many theologians believe the Gospel writers include miracle stories in order to prove that Jesus is divine. But miracles are not proof of deity. Many Old Testament prophets heal people and even raise them from the dead, yet they are mere mortals. Jesus's miracle ministry is a demonstration that the kingdom of God has arrived. Heaven on Earth, pg. 105.
— R. Alan Streett
Miracles are like murders. After the first one, each becomes easier than the last for, with each success, the miracle-worker's certainty in himself becomes stronger.
— Karen Maitland, Company of Liars
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never even have imagined. The coincidences or little miracles that happen every day of your life are hints that the universe has much bigger plans for you than you ever dreamed of for yourself.
— Deepak Chopra
When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.
— Craig Groeschel, Altar Ego: Becoming Who God Says You Are
After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I guarantee that tomorrow there will be something that will happen, that has never happened before.That is something to look forward too.And the best part of tomorrow is that there is another one just a day later.
— JohnA Passaro
You did not have to understand miracles to believe in them, and in fact Mabel had begun to suspect the opposite. To believe, perhaps you had to cease looking for explanations and instead hold the little thing in your hands as long as you were able before it slipped like water between your fingers.
— Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill coupled together as the Doctrine of Christianity and that of Transubstantiation, because they draw several ways, and are ready to strangle one another: For the main Evidence of the Christian Doctrine, which is Miracles, is resolved into the certainty of Sense, but this Evidence is clear and point blank against Transubstantiation.
— John Tillotson, A Discourse Against Transubstantiation
If the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means.
— Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife
Most people weren't wired to see miracles, even when one was staring them in the face.
— Greg Mitchell
What makes movies magical is not that incredible things happen in them. Incredible things happen in real life. No, what makes movies magical is they end right after the incredible thing happens.
— Matteson Perry
We are walking through a field of burning bushes, of the everyday heroes God puts in our lives.
— Chris August
I continueto believe in miracles. But i know that miracles come to thosewho work very hard
— Cinda Williams Chima, The Gray Wolf Throne
I liked James and James liked me and we both knew it and if you think about it, that's like a miracle. A real miracle. Everyone says that babies are miracles, and don't get me wrong, I love cute little pudgy babies, but if you think about it, me having a baby right now would not be a miracle. At all. But finding someone that gets me? That's the real work. That's where the miracles are.
— Robin Benway, Audrey, Wait!
It’s not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
An aged monk led me to the infirmary. "He's got the place to himself. Once the other invalids learned there was a dragon coming they miraculously got well! The lame could walk and the blind decided they didn't really need to see. He's a panacea.
— Rachel Hartman, Seraphina
Miracles need people as much as people need miracles.
— Amy Neftzger, The Orphanage of Miracles
If miracles were easy, the would be everywhere.
— Amy Neftzger, The Orphanage of Miracles
Small miracles happen every day, some people just don’t notice them.
— Leila Summers
Miracles don't just happen on their own you know, you got to make them happen.
— Joem S. Aguilar
In the world of miracles, you ask the impossible.
— Gavriil Stiharul
They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
— Ray Bradbury
Ought we not to look upon our own history as being at least as full of God, as full of His goodness and of His truth, as much a proof of His faithfulness and veracity, as the lives of any of the saints who have gone before? We do our Lord an injustice when we suppose that He wrought all His mighty acts, and showed Himself strong for those in the early time, but doth not perform wonders or lay bare His arm for the saints who are now upon the earth.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Christ's miracles were not the suspension of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. They were a reminder of what once was prior to the fall and a preview of what will eventually be a universal reality once again--a world of peace and justice, without death, disease, or conflict.
— Timothy J. Keller
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.
— Hans Jonas
You know, I've always hated those stories about princes and princesses with some extraordinary ability, special because they're born special.' 'Like me?' He smiled wickedly, making me laugh a l
— Marta Acosta, Dark Companion
(I know, it's a poem but oh well).Why! who makes much of a miracle? As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach, just in the edge of the water, Or stand under trees in the woods, Or talk by day with any one I love--or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love, Or sit at table at dinner with my mother, Or look at strangers opposite me riding in the car, Or watch honey-bees busy around the hive, of a summer forenoon, Or animals feeding in the fields, Or birds--or the wonderfulness of insects in the air, Or the wonderfulness of the sun-down--or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite, delicate, thin curve of the new moon in spring; Or whether I go among those I like best, and that like me best-- mechanics, boatmen, farmers, Or among the savans--or to the soiree--or to the opera, Or stand a long while looking at the movements of machinery, Or behold children at their sports, Or the admirable sight of the perfect old man, or the perfect old woman, Or the sick in hospitals, or the dead carried to burial, Or my own eyes and figure in the glass; These, with the rest, one and all, are to me miracles, The whole referring--yet each distinct, and in its place.To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle, Every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, Every foot of the interior swarms with the same; Every spear of grass--the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them, All these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim--the rocks--the motion of the waves--the ships, with men in them, What stranger miracles are there?
— Walt Whitman
Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God.
— Randy Alcorn, Heaven
Eschatology is the dustbin into which we sweep everything we don't want. To believe. We believe that the Lord will manifest Himself to men, but He'll do it tomorrow, or the day after, or the next millennium.
— A.W. Tozer, The Attributes of God: Deeper into the Father's Heart
In any miracle, chase the causation back far enough and eventually you'll find yourself irrepressibly singing in praise of the marvelous goodness of God's creation.
— Matthew Lee Anderson, Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter To Our Faith
Why, he wondered, was it so hard to see humankind as capable of creating miracles? Miracles were just second chances if you really thought about it-second chances when all hope was lost.
— Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again
The historical method includes the presupposition that history is a unity in the sense of a closed continuum of effects in which individual events are connected by the succession of cause and effect....This closedness means that the continuum of historical happenings cannot be rent by the interference of supernatural transcendent powers and that therefore there is no "miracle" in this sense of the word.
— Rudolf Karl Bultmann
Experience and miracle are two agents crafted with different names and meanings, yet express the exact same nature. It takes a miracle to gap experience. It takes experience to close the wall of a miracle. In the end, the only real difference...is skill.
— Lionel Suggs
Create Your Own Miracles, don't wait for Miracles to happen.
— Steven Redhead, The Solution
Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: we shall try again and again, and we are bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but we have to defy them. So do not give up, do not give up! Continue, continue! The goal is ahead of you. If you do not give up, you are bound to reach your destined goal.
— Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey
seven times down eight times up like the Daruma doll
— Chris Bradford, The Way of the Warrior
Believe in that One Thing That Sets You Apart: your skill, your idea or just you, yourself ! And, Never Stop Believing.
— Bunny Naidu
Let them ridicule you, laugh at you, hurt you & ignore you but never let them stop you.
— Apoorve Dubey, The Flight Of Ambition
Absolute solution comes from absolute problem, ultimate certainty comes from ultimate uncertainty, total acceptance comes from total rejection, complete perfection comes from complete flaw, ample richness comes from ample poverty, foolproof protection comes from unyielding danger and unlimited liberty comes from unlimited restriction. Each one is coincident of another as dark is coincident of light.To such a degree, never try to escape from them.Rather bravely and wisely engage to sort them out . You know, these wonderful stuffs fetch for its tail all wonderful-reverse-stuffs, making your life tested and dignified.Never give up rather wake-up, have a great shower, eat, dress up and join in the struggle. Neither dishearten yourself nor give ears to others' words, just keep faith on you, believe your own intuition and keep the struggle going...I am damn sure, Success, it must lay its head eventually beneath your noble feet as a flunky of order execution and will crown you as the king."Many Cheers from Lord Robin
— Lord Robin
Absolute solution comes from absolute problem, ultimate certainty comes from ultimate uncertainty, total acceptance comes from total rejection, complete perfection comes from complete flaw, ample richness comes from ample poverty, foolproof protection comes from unyielding danger and unlimited liberty comes from unlimited restriction. Each one is coincident of another as dark is coincident of light.To such a degree, never try to escape from them.Rather bravely and wisely engage to sort them out . You know, these wonderful stuffs fetch for its tail all wonderful-reverse-stuffs, making your life tested and dignified.Never give up rather wake-up, have a great shower, eat, dress up and join in the struggle. Neither dishearten yourself nor give ears to others' words, just keep faith on you, believe your own intuition and keep the struggle going...I am damn sure, Success, it must lay its head eventually beneath your noble feet as a flunky of order execution and will crown you as the king. Many Cheers from Lord Robin.
— Lord Robin
the lights that show me the way maybe so simple, but for me they're enough to reach my way, to find the right path, I won't give up until my last breath.
— Nourhan Mamdouh
Sometimes, you can try all you want to change something, but no matter what you do, nothing will change. The key is to at least know that you tried to make a difference.
— Kiara Knopfmacher
I know that my singing doesn’t make the moon rise, nor does it make the stars shine. But without my song, the night would seem empty and incomplete. There is more to daybreak than light, just as there is more to nighttime than darkness.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
Champions don't give up
—  they get up!
The best way to lose a game is to assume that it is over, when it isn't, yet. The second best way is to assume that no fight is left within us, but to guarantee a loss is to mentally enter the game as a loser.
— Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
The night is darkest just before dawn. But keep your eyes open; if you avert your eyes from the dark, you'll be blind to the rays of a new day...So keep your eyes open, no matter how dark the night ahead may be.
— Hideaki Sorachi
I believe "If you're "managing" people rather than leading them and tracking time rather than results, you've already lost. Give it up."I do not manage people, I lead them
— Dr. Karan M Pai
Sometimes you must give up on certain people, but it should be mandatory that you will never ever give up on yourself.
— Ben Tolosa, Masterplan Your Success
Whatever happens to us is beneficial.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be patient and believe in your future. God is already there and is preparing a way.
— Shannon L. Alder
You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
— C.S. Lewis