Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

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

A lot of times, really wonderful things that have come my way have come basically out of the blue.

Our Savior's birth is the ultimate reminder that miracles happen and often when we don't expect them.

I feel like everything in my life has somehow just fallen into perfect place at the perfect time. I don't know how it happened. It's always like right at the point of my life about to fall apart, and then something amazing happens. I don't know how, but it happens.

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny: but have no confidence in those which are fathered on the dead.

Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.

life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

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

The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children

But the age of miracles hadn't passed.

To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

Miracles do happen. You must believe this. No matter what else you believe about life, you must believe in miracles.

I should have been dead ten times over. I've thought about that a lot. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never even have imagined. The coincidences or little miracles that happen every day of your life are hints that the universe has much bigger plans for you than you ever dreamed of for yourself.

God shows up with surprises.

If one believes, then miracles occur.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

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

Knowing there's one thing I still haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.

Miracles seldom occur in the lives of those who do not consider them possible.

But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology says to you in effect, 'Admit God and with Him the risk of a few miracles, and I in return will ratify your faith in uniformity as regards the overwhelming majority of events.

When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.