Quotes about miracles

You know what Arthur C. Clarke said about technology and magic, right? Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Turn it around. What is advanced magic indistinguishable from? Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from the miraculous.

Where was the line between a spell and a miracle?

"Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them." ("A Wall of Fire Rising")

“Bipedal movement is the skill of controlled falling,” said Square. “If it weren’t so commonplace, it would seem miraculous—like much out here, to be truthful.”

Burton did not believe in miracles. Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles — if you knew all the facts.

A miracle: a chance distribution of events, occurring one time in a billion.

Believing in accidents is like believing in miracles--both presuppose that God does not know the future.

I’ve always tried to be a rational man. I don’t have much use for the idea of miracles. Things are what they are, that’s all.

If I had seen one miracle fail, I had witnessed another; and even a seemingly purposeless miracle is an inexhaustible source of hope, because it proves to us that since we do not understand everything, our defeats—so much more numerous than our few and empty victories—may be equally specious.

You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we coexist peacefully, but when we do touch there’s cataclysm.

It is sometimes helpful to differentiate between the God of Miracles and the God of Order. When scientists use the word God, they usually mean the God of Order. ...The God of Miracles intervenes in our affairs, performs miracles, destroys wicked cities, smites enemy armies, drowns the Pharaoh's troops, and avenges the pure and noble. ...This is not to say that miracles cannot happen, only that they are outside what is commonly called science.

AVREMEL: You came to us from Zhironov?

YANKEL: Were you there when—

MENDEL: Yes, I was there.

AVREMEL: How did you manage to escape?

SAM: There is always one singled out to escape.

YANKEL: A miracle!

SAM: There is always someone to call it a miracle.