Sophie Swetchine Quotes

But the age of miracles hadn't passed.

If God made the natural laws, why could he not violate them when it was a particularly significant moment for him to do so? And if you accept the idea that Christ was also divine, which I do, then his Resurrection is not in itself a great logical leap.

Miracles, or those extraordinary manifestations of the power of god, are not for the unbeliever; they are to console the Saints, and to strengthen and confirm the faith of those who love, fear, and serve God.

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.

I believe in divine intervention.

If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! And the universe itself would be a standing miracle. A miracle might be perhaps defined more exactly as an effect which is not the consequence or effect of any known laws of nature.

Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.

Christ's miracles were vivid manifestations to the senses that He is the Saviour of the body--and now as then the issues of life and death are in His hands--that our daily existence is a perpetual miracle. The extraordinary was simply a manifestation of God's power in the ordinary.

There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.

Miracles are merely events that happen just when they are needed.

The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.

While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.

God raises the level of the impossible.

Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

I believe in miracles, but I trust in Jesus. If you believe the Bible, you know that God is a miracle-working God. And God is not limited in any degree nor any respect. He is totally sovereign. Do you believe that? I hope you do. Believe in miracles, but don’t put your faith in miracles. Put your faith and your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.

To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.

Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.

Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.

If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.

Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace.

God delights in answering our impossible prayers.