The whole idea of creating saints, it's pure 'Monty Python.' They have to clock up two miracles.
I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.
In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
The very idea of supernatural magic - including miracles - is incoherent, devoid of sensible meaning.
As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.
Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.
In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
While MIT and the University of Chicago duke it out for the title of nerdiest school, James Franco and Renee Zellweger show up at Harvard to party. Somehow, miracle of miracles, Harvard is 'cool.'
I was written off as a lost cause. But I'm living proof that miracles can happen.
