Miracle Quotations

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, its a quiet thing. At least for me it was.

The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.

As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.

Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.

Our rational minds often attempt to minimise or negate the mystical encounters. We forget the power of our experiences. We must embrace the reality of that event, which is a miracle.

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

Miracle at St. Anna.' I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the eye and said, 'You start this film off and you end this film. I don't want a dry eye in the theatre. Can you pull that off?' He was dead serious.

The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able to still make music is such a miracle.

In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.

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.

Don't say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don't give up 15 minutes before the miracle comes. Everyone's career ebbs and flows, especially if you're African American. That's the time to dig in and keep your instrument sharp.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.

I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.

It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

The film business has so many twists and turns that it's a miracle any film gets made.

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.

Look, miracles in the Middle East are a reality.

Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.

I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - thats not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.

And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.

Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. You are not living by human laws. Expect miracles and see them take place. Hold ever before you the thought of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will bring it into being.

If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.

I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.

Auntie Anne's is a modern-day business miracle that never should have happened.

There is no miracle cure for the many problems of the world.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?

I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.

Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

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.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It's a miracle that we get anything right.

That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.

Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.

God continues to work miracles in my life.

I was treated with a miracle drug, just like Lance Armstrong,

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?'

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

I grew up in Los Angeles, and I was always fascinated by the La Brea Tar Pits. Right in the middle of the city, in an area called the Miracle Mile, for crying out loud, we have these eldritch ponds of dark, bubbling goo. And down in the muck, there're all these amazing fossils: mammoth and saber tooth cat and dire wolf.

If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle—or instruction.

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the blue.

Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen.

I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker

I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.

I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.

My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.

I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.

I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!