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Miracle: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every believer is God's miracle.— BAILEY — Festus. Sc. Home.

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.— CRASHAW — Steps to the Temple. To Our

Lord upon the Water Made Wine. 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 — Story of Doom. Bk. VII. L. 271.

Great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied. S.— Shakespeare — All's Well That Ends Well. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 142.

It must be so; for miracles are ceased; And therefore we must needs admit the means How things are perfected.— Shakespeare — Henry V. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 67.

Accept a miracle instead of wit, - See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.— YOUNG — Lines written with the Diamond

Pencil of Lord Chesterfield. What is a miracle? - 'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.— YOUNG — Night Thoughts. Night IX. L. 1,245.