The contemporary opinion about this work – " a revelation of all the potentialities and force of the art of sculpture " – was summarized by Vasari: " It is certainly a miracle that a formless block of stone could ever have been reduced to a perfection that nature is scarcely able to create in the flesh.

Divine revelation of the supernatural order is considered to be a matter of fact, contingent upon proper evidence of such, ( miracle, prophecy etc .).

:" The recognition of this ' miracle ' must have struck Leopold with the force of a divine revelation and he felt his responsibility to be not merely a father's and teacher's but a missionary's as well.

His healing powers from The Twelve also manifest themselves again, in the form of the revelation that Angel's blood has miracle healing properties.

" The proselyte, however, is dearer to God than was Israel when it was gathered together at Sinai, because Israel would not have received the Law of God without the miracles of its revelation, whereas the proselyte, without seeing a single miracle, has consecrated himself to God and accepted the kingdom of heaven " ( Tan., Lek Leka, ed.

The deeper wonder is how this miracle was accomplished in decades, rather than in centuries and by immigrant minorities at that.

We have not the leisure, or the patience, or the skill, to comprehend what was working in the mind and heart of a then recent graduate from the Harvard Divinity School who would muster the audacity to contradict his most formidable instructor, the majesterial Andrews Norton, by saying that, while he believed Jesus `` like other religious teachers '', worked miracles, `` I see not how a miracle proves a doctrine ''.

To ask me to believe that so inexpressibly marvelous a book was written long after all the events by some admiring follower, and was not inspired directly by the Spirit of God, is asking me to accept a miracle far greater than any of those recorded in the Bible.

First, he explains that in all of history there has never been a miracle which was attested to by a wide body of disinterested experts.

* If the Venerable was not a martyr – all non-martyrs are " confessors " as they " confessed " or bore witness to their faith by how they lived their lives – it must be proven that a miracle has taken place by his or her intercession: that is, that God has shown a sign that the person is enjoying the Beatific Vision by God performing a miracle in response to the Blessed's prayers.

She was convinced that: " The divine Spirit had wrought the miracle — a miracle which later I found to be in perfect scientific accord with divine law.

A story similar in character, and obviously older in date, is the one alluded to in 2 Maccabees 1: 18 et seq according to which the relighting of the altar fire by Nehemiah was due to a miracle which occurred on the 25th of Kislev, and which appears to be given as the reason for the selection of the same date for the rededication of the altar by Judah Maccabee.

The miracle stories in Mark do not demonstrate the divinity of Jesus, as this is an idea not found in that gospel, but rather confirm his status as an emissary of God ( which was Mark's understanding of the Messiah ).

: 4: 54 This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.

The population of Italy almost doubled during the twentieth century, but the pattern of growth was extremely uneven due to large-scale internal migration from the rural South to the industrial cities of the North, a phenomenon which happened as a consequence of the Italian economic miracle of the 1950-60s.

For three decades from 1960, Japan experienced rapid economic growth, which was referred to as the Japanese post-war economic miracle.

By this time, the best Goebbels could do to reassure the German people that victory was still possible was to make vague promises that " miracle weapons " such as the Me 262 jet aircraft, the Type XXI U-boat, and the V-2 rocket could somehow retrieve the military situation.

At his urgent entreaty his " hand was restored him again " (, compare ); but the miracle made no abiding impression on him.

A miracle occurred and the food she was carrying ( which would have earned her a death sentence ), turned into a garland of roses.

I had to console them with feeble excuses such as that His Excellency was not very well, or engaged in an urgent state call to Berlin ... For the rest of the morning he listened to reports from members of the Embassy staff, unless I had to accompany him to the Foreign Office ... When Ribbentrop strutted through the Office corridors like a peacock, his head thrown back, it was a miracle that he did not fall over.

That Ribbentrop was able to perform even this miracle only came home to me much later ".

: It was a miracle of rare device,

Baldassare Castiglione, author of Il Cortegiano (" The Courtier "), wrote in 1528: "... Another of the greatest painters in this world looks down on this art in which he is unequalled ..." while the biographer known as " Anonimo Gaddiano " wrote, c. 1540: " His genius was so rare and universal that it can be said that nature worked a miracle on his behalf ...".

This miracle according to the Talmud ( Tractate Menahot 86b ) was taken as a sign that the Shechinah rested over Israel.

John Gambril Nicholson wrote in 1892, " Though Frank may ring like silver bell, And Cecil softer music claim, They cannot work the miracle, –' Tis Ernest sets my heart a-flame.

Rather the miracle is for combating the ignorance it entails, like a political project.

In the same years the Italian economic miracle led to the birth of Sardinian tourist " boom ", mainly focused on beach holidays and luxury tourism, like in Costa Smeralda.

It is then that Fertility finds Tender and gives him a prediction to make on TV that will seem like a miracle when it comes true.

In medieval Europe, like trial by combat, trial by ordeal was considered a judicium Dei: a procedure based on the premise that God would help the innocent by performing a miracle on his behalf.

Mehdi Kazemi thanked Hughes in a letter to people across the world who fought to save his life: " I would like to say thank you to my local MP, Mr Simon Hughes, and his team who gave me the chance to live and made a miracle happen when he heard that my life was in serious danger and asked the Home Office to suspend my deportation in December 2006.

His last miracle was making the room that he died in smell like heaven.

Other explanation of him wearing a mask was that his face had burned due to his practicing his magic or miracle that would have qualified him as a profit, It is worth of noting that word magician comes from the word Magi that was the name of ancient Iranian priests and they used to perform different ritual like walking through fire ( worth mentioning that all priest wore white attire and north east of Iran mountain are rich source of asbestos that in Parsi it is call fire proof cotton ) and making different elixir for different illness or predicting future through reading the astronomical signs.

Many pilgrims came to the shrine hoping to receive a miracle while others like Anne of Austria supported the shrine from their homes.

It attracted the attention of many intellectuals, including Ingmar Bergman who said: " My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle.

Film critic Roger Ebert praised the film and called it a " small miracle " for its handling of teenage material in an era when movies like Porky's were the norm.

We find out this miracle birth was created kind of like a secret ingredient all planned out to sleep with Cordelia and create this superbeing.

James has recently urged the general public to stop light pollution in a bid to make it easier to see the stars at night, urging “ there is nothing like staring at a star-lit sky to remind you what an amazing miracle the universe really is .”

The priest, Rodrigo González Marmolejo, said later that the fight was like the Day of Judgment for the Spaniards and that only a miracle saved them.

A traditional version of the miracle question would go like this:

The people who like to deride any suggestion that this may be so usually distort the argument by insinuating that it asserts that by some miracle just that sort of system has spontaneously grown up which is best suited to modern civilization.

Probably Virudhaka, like Ajatashatru of Magadha, had ambitions of empire, and wished to embark on a career of conquest after bringing the outlying peoples, who had paid loose homage to his father, more directly under the control of the centre ; but his intentions were unfulfilled, for we hear no more of him except an unreliable legend that he was destroyed by a miracle soon after his massacre of Shakyas.

I invite miracle performers like Satya Sai Baba, Pandrimalai Swamigal, Neelakanta Tathaji, Nirmala Devi Srivastava, Pujya Dadaji, Dattabal, Triprayar Yogini, Gtirudev Anandamurthi, Kamubhai, Chinmayanand, Acharya Rajneesh, Muktanand, Swami Rama, Swami Haridas, Sivabalayogi, Bhagavan Gnanananda, Gurumaharaj-ji, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Hazarath Ali, Dr. Vadlaimudi, C. S. Teerthangar, R. P. Tiwari, Uri Geller, Ne1iya Michailova, Jeane Dixon, Sybil Leek and the numerous " professors " of astrology and palmistry, in India and numerous other gurus, swamijis, mahants, acharyas, andas, babas and bhagavans who have found fresh pastures and wealthier gullibles in Western Countries, to take up my challenge and prove to skeptics like me that they are not hoaxers.

As soda was marketed as a miracle cure, it was often considered a substance that required oversight and control like alcohol, another controlled substance that could not be served or purchased on Sundays in many conservative areas.

It brings to old planes unknown feelings of freshness, with the quality of something newly created, like a miracle, and it produces an almost religious enthusiasm.

: History and myth united, and a miracle if you like, because that evening Bartali got a phone call at his hotel.