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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

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.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.

I think all of us create our own miracles.

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.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.