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.
Ethan Allen
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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
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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
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Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life;
Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign,
Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife,
And so turns wine to water back again.
- Richard Crashaw,
Richard Crashaw
Quotes , Source: Steps to the Temple--To Our Lord upon the Water Made Wine
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though
nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a
miracle.
Richard Crashaw
Quotes , Source: Steps to the Temple--To Our Lord upon the Water Made Wine
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When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine,
Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine,
See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd,
The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.
Aaron Hill
Quotes , Source: Translation of Crashaw's Latin lines--Works (vol. III, o. 241), (ed. 1754)
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Man is the miracle in nature. God
Is the One Miracle to man. Behold,
"There is a God," thou sayest. Thou sayest well:
In that thou sayest all. To Be is more
Of wonderful, than being, to have wrought,
Or reigned, or rested.
Jean Ingelow
Quotes , Source: Story of Doom (bk. VII, l. 271)
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Accept a miracle; instead of wit,--
See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: to Lord Chesterfield on using his pencil, according to John Taylor in "Records of My Life"
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The water owns a power Divine,
And conscious blushes into wine;
Its very nature changed displays
The power Divine that it obeys.
Sedulius ("Scotus Hybernicus")
Quotes , Source: hymn written in fifth century
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So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown
When judges have been babes; great floods have flown
From simple sources, and great seas have dried
When miracles have by the greatest been denied.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Helena at II, i)
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It must be so, for miracles are ceased
And therefore we must needs admit the means
How things are perfected.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Canterbury at I, i)
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What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach,
'Tis an implicit satire on mankind;
And while it satisfies, it censures too.
Edward Young
Quotes , Source: Night Thoughts (night IX, l. 1,245)
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For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
Nancy Gibbs
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An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected."
A. P. Herbert
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I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.
Peggy Noonan
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