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REFLECTIONS

Miracles

Quotations to stir heart and mind.

Compiled by Richard A. Kauffman | posted 2/04/2008 08:27AM

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IF A MAN believes in unalterable natural law, he cannot believe in any miracle in any age. If a man believes in a will behind law, he can believe in any miracle in any age.
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

IT IS MY OPINION that miracle is an essential element of biblical faith. … Miracle, however, is not to be understood in terms of the 19th-century argument between science and religion, but in terms of the biblical doctrine of Creation. From this perspective, miracle is strange and offensive not only to modern man, but to ancient man as well.
Millard C. Lind, "Reflections on Biblical Hermeneutics," in Kingdom, Cross, and Community

A MIRACLE in healing is not the conjuring of some magic, nor a disruption in the created order, or something supernatural. Rather, healing exemplifies the redemption of fallen creation, the restoration of the created order, the return to the usual, the normative, the natural.
William Stringfellow, A Simplicity of Faith: My Experience in Mourning

THE FITNESS of the Christian miracles, and their difference from these mythological miracles, lies in the fact that they show invasion by a Power which is not alien. They are what might be expected to happen when [nature] is invaded not simply by a god, but by the God of Nature: by a Power which is outside her jurisdiction not as a foreigner but as a sovereign.
C. S. Lewis, Miracles

GOD does not sell himself into the hands of religious magicians. I do not believe in that kind of miracles. I believe in the kind of miracles that God gives to his people who live so close to him that answers to prayer are common and these miracles are not uncommon.
A. W. Tozer, Rut, Rot, or Revival

IS NOT the most helpful way to approach the gospel miracles to place them within the familiar and inescapable tension between the already and the not yet, kingdom come and kingdom coming, the new age inaugurated and the new age consummated? To the skeptical (who doubt all miracles), I want to say "but already we have tasted the powers of the age to come." To the credulous (who think that healing miracles are an everyday occurrence), I want to say "but not yet have we been given resurrection bodies free from disease, pain, infirmity, handicap, and death."
John R. W. Stott, Evangelical Essentials: A Liberal-Evangelical Dialogue

CHRIST HIMSELF … is the supreme miracle and the chief attestation of the truth of the biblical revelation.
Alan Richardson, Christian Apologetics

A MIRACLE is a sign of the
love of Jesus,
Who yearns to heal each one of us
So that we can become truly alive and grow in love.
Jean Vanier, Drawn into the Mystery of Jesus through the Gospel of John

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Doris Frilles

Posted: February 09, 2008 6:46 PM

Excellent topic about miracles. I received one of those miracles by faith when I was a child and to this day a doctor would not be able to explain how it happened. It was driven by faith in Jesus love. Miracles is indeed a manifestation of Jesus love for people who accepts and believes in Him. Unless you accept Jesus in your life no miracle will take place. The kind of faith we need these days is believing in Jesus as He is the son of God and that we surrender to the will of God not what we want. That's what happened to me. My mom's faith and love for me was just the start of it all and the rest is God's works. It was not easy to surrender your faith in God but in need when bad circumstances took place you have a choice to turn to God or to enemy. Remember the enemy does not and will not do any miracles!

Ephrem Hagos

Posted: February 05, 2008 12:00 PM


What stir my heart and mind even more than the quotations cited are the application by men and women of varied and appropriate underlying spiritual principles (unknown today) which unleashed the miracles one after the other!

the fall

Posted: February 05, 2008 5:20 AM

William Stringfellow's words above, are especially powerful. They point to the sadness of miracles. I have experienced miracles of healing and we are forced to ask; "if God can heal so quickly and easily why does he not simply keep us healed forever?" And we have to answer our own question that it was us who fell and it us who are sinfull and need to walk closer to God; and then when the time is right we will go on to heaven where there are no tears and no illnesses. I must say I am a little sad as I write this. Things could have been so much better had we not fallen as a human-race. God is so perfect and his ways are so safe and healthy. Why could we not keep his laws so that we remained whole and holy? But all things good will happen in God's time. Glory to God and may he be blessed forever.