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...

Watch out, every day miraculous encounter with you and God!

I replayed the moment I first saw him at the picnic throughout our years together. As corny as it may sound, from the first glance we shared near the cake stand at the picnic, the...

It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.

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...

One might almost say that an apparition is human vision corrected by divine love. I do not see you as you really are, Joseph; I see you through my affection for you. The Miracles of...

Symbols are miracles we have recorded into language.

Seek happiness and joy in those things that most take for granted. If we spend our time waiting for great miracles to occur in our lives, we miss the small, everyday wonders of life.

Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one recovering from disease, a fortunate business deal, a chance meeting...

So pervasively has Enlightenment culture’s anti-supernaturalism affected the Western church, especially educated European and North American Christians, that most of us are suspicious of anything supernatural.

The sacred stillness of your brilliant hearthas as the myriad wonders masqueraded.But if you knew this secret from the start,then you’d have quit this Game before you played it.

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...

it will be miraculous, very miraculous.

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

Mendel had a remarkable nature as a boy. I’m not talking about miracles. Miracles are a burden for a tzaddik, not the proof of one. Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought...

Jesus was surely not the first exorcist to walk the shores of the Sea of Galilee. In first-century Palestine, professional wonder worker was a vocation as well established as that of woodworker or mason, and...

Fortunate are those who take the first step. Someday people will realize that men and women are capable of speaking the language of the angels – that all of us are possessed of the gifts...

We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living

I don’t think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a “hypaethral book,” such as Thoreau talked about – a book open to the sky. It is best...

For years I was deathly afraid of my own weaknesses, but when I closed my eyes and let myself be vulnerable to them it allowed miracles to take place. Miracles that were only alive when...

I love you and I miss you: come home safe.” Connections make us individuals. Ironic, isn’t it? The more connected, the more unique our life becomes…

When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is impractical, and therefore, useless.

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

We only get either A Lesson or A Miracle.

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...

I don’t believe in prayer, but I do believe in magic, and I want to believe in miracles.

But the past is long, and the future is short.

Make your own Miracles, don’t wait for miracles to happen; they need a spark of energy to make them real.

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...

To the one who views from a larger perspective….everything is a blessing.

If you are in a pit of stress or despair, don’t succumb to defeat. Don’t accept that difficult place as your fate. Even though God has allowed you to be there right now, he never...

But miracles do happen, every shining now and then. If not now, if not now, tell me when. From “If Not Now

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the...

Discover Whether Jesus Is For You Or Your Pastor’s Jesus Or Your Friend’s Jesus… You Will See A Lot Of Miracles.

…the water was scarcely inviting; for, through fear lest the output of the source should not suffice, the Fathers of the Grotto only allowed the water of the baths to be changed twice a day....

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

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....

I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion...

Miracles do happen, but, not always the way you expect them

Miracles surround us at every turn, if we but sharpen our perceptions to them.

No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.

I am realistic – I expect miracles.

Miracles need people as much as people need miracles.

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Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.

Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alertto her next disaster.Despite being resigned to a life of misfortune, she becameresourceful.She grudgingly noticed that things always worked out, evenwhen she claimed defeat.An...

What is a miracle if not the manifestation of light where darkness is expected?

I’ve come to accept that parts of life are constant, that just because something happens on two different days doesn’t make it a goddamn miracle.

It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow.””Ah…quite. You are a man of acute insight.””That’s not insight. That’s a personal guarantee.

A miracle is often the willingness to see the common in an uncommon way.