A miracle has happened!
In retrospect, it was a miracle none of us fainted.
Of the supreme miracle of His resurrection there is earlier evidence' than of any of the others (1 Cor.
Never mind he spent three years constantly riding the bench, hoping against hope for a miracle, as he practiced, cheered and hustled with unbridled enthusiasm.
All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
The miracle forms the subject of a celebrated fresco by Raphael in the Vatican.
Then I lost a grandson and thanks to a miracle, he was returned to me, unharmed.
This miracle was achieved by tact and management.
How many days, months, years had she prayed for a miracle like the one in her hand?
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
At one of the altars in this crypt occurred the miracle of Bolsena in 1263.
She'd always hoped Wynn found some miracle cure, even while checking things off her bucket list.
Magic is a child's interpretation of a miracle, or anything they can't understand.
More vexing than the inexplicable medical miracle was the creature that did it.
2 In the 15th century the custom became almost universal of following the procession with the performance of miracle-plays and mysteries, generally arranged and acted by members of the gilds who had formed part of the pageant.
Miracle could not be to a 3rd century writer what it was to W.
To the men who fought against the rising truths of physical philosophy, it seemed that if they admitted that truth it would destroy faith in God, in the creation of the firmament, and in the miracle of Joshua the son of Nun.
"It will be a miracle if we even get there but if we do, you can turn away from the actual abduction," I said as I readied the equipment and turned on the recorder.
We should be enjoying this miracle, not fighting and accusing.
When Dusty found Bianca, she swore she'd seen a miracle, for the master assassin was the last person in either world she'd ever have thought would fall to something like love.
Was residing at Orvieto; and it was to commemorate this miracle that the existing cathedral was built.
Was carried on beams and could be raised in the middle, as we see it in Carpaccio's picture of "The Miracle of the Cross."
" In miracle no new powers, instituted or stimulated by God's creative action, are at work, but merely the general order of nature "; but " the manifold physical and spiritual powers in actual existence so blend together as to produce a startling result " (Dorner's System of Christian Doctrine, ii.
The test of a miracle is, were there present in the case such external conditions, such second causes we may call them, that wherever these conditions or causes reappear the event will be reproduced.
Lotze has shown how the possibility of miracle can be conceived.
Hume maintains that no evidence, such as is available, can make a miracle credible.
The most frequent are the miracle at Cana, the multiplication of the loaves and fishes, the paralytic carrying his bed, the healing of the woman with the issue of blood, the raising of Lazarus, FIG.
(5) The miracle of the loaves.
He went to Bologna, and studied under the friendly tutelage of Guido; thence he proceeded to Rome, where he painted, in the Cistercian monastery, the "Miracle of the Loaves."
Ferocious yells of triumph rang from the mob.
She didn't miss Hannah's stunned look, as if it were a miracle her homely sister could catch the eye of anyone!
It was said that the Emperor was leaving the army because it was in danger, it was said that Smolensk had surrendered, that Napoleon had an army of a million and only a miracle could save Russia.
Miracle of miracles, Cynthia picked up the phone on the first ring.
Miracle of miracles, Gladys is awake and it ain't even noon yet.
An attempt is made to get rid of the distinctive nature of miracle when the exceptionalness of the events so regarded is reduced to a new subjective mode of regarding natural phenomena.
If there were, it is not a miracle; if there were not, it is " (Essays, p. 224).
This congruity of the miracle with divine truth and grace is the answer to Matthew Arnold's taunt about turning a pen into a pen-wiper or Huxley's about a centaur trotting down Regent Street.
We were content to allow him this small title of uniqueness knowing it was killing him to be so close to a scientific miracle with hands tied and mouth gagged against announcing his findings to the world.
If it means all experience it assumes the point to be proved; if it means only common experience then it simply asserts that the miracle is unusual - a truism.
So for Schleiermacher "miracle is neither explicable from nature alone, nor entirely alien to it."
And this being the case, the complete conditioning causes of the miracle will be found in God and nature together, and in that eternal action and reaction between them which perhaps, although not ordered simply according to general laws, is not void of regulative principles.
When the existence of God is denied (atheism), or His nature is declared unknowable (agnosticism), or He is identified with nature itself (pantheism), or He is so distinguished from the world that His free action is excluded from the course of nature (deism), miracle is necessarily denied.
There were medieval Baedekers in abundance for the use of the annual flow of tourists, who were carried every Easter by the vessels of the Italian towns or of the Orders to visit the Holy Land and to bathe in Jordan, to gather palms, and to see the miracle of fire at the Sepulchre.
This triumph was universally considered at the time, and for long afterwards, to have been a miracle, and bore the title of "The Miracle of the Thundering Legion."
To the Israelites, however, it was a miracle, an unexpected intervention on the part of Yahweh, and the first of many marvels which he performed on behalf of the people of his choice.
8vo), a work fully intended to take the place of Temminck's; but of which Bonaparte, in a caustic but by no means ill-deserved Revue critique (12 mo, 1850), said that the author had performed a miracle since he had worked without a collection of specimens and without a library.
But, if Jesus really cured leprosy or really restored the dead to life, we have miracle plainly enough in the region of healing.
Commodus, who was with his father when he died, erected to his memory the Antonine column (now in the Piazza Colonna at Rome), round the shaft of which are sculptures in relief commemorating the miracle of the Thundering Legion and the various victories of Aurelius over the Quadi and the Marcomanni.
This triumph was universally considered at the time, and for long afterwards, to have been a miracle, and bore the title of "The Miracle of the Thundering Legion."
Mill's definition of miracles: " to constitute a miracle, a phenomenon must take place without having been preceded by any antecedent phenomenal conditions sufficient again to reproduce it.
