Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
– Augustine
Miracles | Nature
In the proper sense, a miracle is an event which is not producible by the natural causes that are operative in effect at the time and place the event occurs.
– William Lane Craig
Miracles
God’s miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree – all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.
– Ronald Reagan
Miracles | Nature
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
– Blaise Pascal
Miracles
How quickly we forget God’s great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
– David Wilkerson
Miracles
The gospel which they so greatly needed they would not have; the miracles which Jesus did not always choose to give, they eagerly demanded.
– Charles Spurgeon
Miracles | Jesus | The Gospel
It is not the objective proof of God’s existence that we want but the experience of God’s presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get.
– Frederick Buechner
Miracles | Theology
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
Miracles
The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments, the moments which, if we do not look with more than our eyes or listen with more than our ears reveal only…a gardener, a stranger coming down the road behind us, a meal like any other meal. But if we look with our hearts, if we listen with all our being and imagination… what we may see is Jesus himself.
– Frederick Buechner
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Prophecy and miracles argue the imperfection of the state of the church, rather than its perfection. For they are means designed by God as a stay or support, or as a leading string to the church in its infancy, rather than as means adapted to it in its full growth.
– Jonathan Edwards
Prophecy | Miracles
Miracles are the swaddling clothes of infant churches.
– Thomas Fuller
Miracles | Church
Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God’s miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.
– Oswald Chambers
Prayer | Miracles | Morality
When human reason has exhausted every possibility, the children can go to their Father and receive all they need. … For only when you have become utterly dependent upon prayer and faith, only when all human possibilities have been exhausted, can you begin to reckon that God will intervene and work His miracles.
– Basilea Schlink
Reasoning | Miracles
Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author’s control.
– C.S. Lewis
Miracles | Salvation | Resurrection
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
– G.K. Chesterton
Reasoning | Miracles
A miracle is an extraordinary event wrought by God through human agency, an event that cannot be explained by natural forces. Miracles are always designed to authenticate the human instrument God has chosen to declare a specific revelation to those who witness the miracle.
– John MacArthur
Miracles
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
– Helen Keller
Miracles
There’s hope–a miracle happened to me.
– Duane Chapman
Hope | Miracles
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.
– Tim Keller
Miracles
The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
– G.K. Chesterton
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I have learned to use the word “impossible” with the greatest caution.
– Assorted Authors
Miracles
I never have any difficulty believing in miracles, since I experienced the miracle of a change in my own heart.
– Augustine
Miracles | The Heart
We are the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.
– Thomas Carlyle
Miracles
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
– John Calvin
Miracles | Satan
Catching the apple doesn’t overturn the law of gravity or the formulation of a new law. It’s merely an intervention of a person with freewill who overrides the natural causes operative in that particular circumstance. And that is, essentially, is what God does when he causes a miracle to occur.
– William Lane Craig
Miracles
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
– C.S. Lewis
Miracles | Nature
We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus’ miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.
– Tim Keller
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