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 ''.

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 ...".

Then the priest blesses kolyva ( boiled wheat with honey and raisins ) which is distributed to the faithful in commemoration of the following miracle worked by St. Theodore on the First Saturday of Great Lent: Fifty years after the death of St Theodore, the emperor Julian the Apostate ( 361-363 ), as a part of his general policy of persecution of Christians, commanded the governor of Constantinople during the first week of Great Lent to sprinkle all the food provisions in the marketplaces with the blood offered to pagan idols, knowing that the people would be hungry after the strict fasting of the first week.

James Keller states that " The claim that God has worked a miracle implies that God has singled out certain persons for some benefit which many others do not receive implies that God is unfair .” An example would be " If God intervenes to save your life in a car crash, then what was he doing in Auschwitz ?".

Notwithstanding, a conference exploring the situation and its possible effects on the community with the individuals at the core of the problem had worked a minor miracle.

The miracles worked in Cuthbert's name during the late Anglo-Saxon period were particularly flamboyant, and the Libellus contains engaging accounts of some of these, including the miracle of the three waves ( when Cuthbert turned a portion of the Irish Sea into blood in order to prevent his followers from taking his relics out of England, see Libellus ii. 11 ), the foundation of Durham ( when Cuthbert's body, being moved across England on a cart, refused to be moved, signaling his desire to remain at Durham, see Libellus iii. 1 ), and several picturesque deaths visited upon the enemies of Cuthbert's devotees.

Commenting on his statement about the “ Miracle ”, Friedman says that “ the emphasis of that talk was that free markets would undermine political centralization and political control .” Friedman stated that “ The real miracle in Chile was not that those economic reforms worked so well, but because that ’ s what Adam Smith said they would do.

*" Faith Healers: The born-again Gregory brothers worked a financial miracle from cast-off drug brands.

The dog was adopted by the Red Cross team in Cali, Colombia, for a few weeks ( they renamed him " Milagro ", which is Spanish for " miracle "), then an American Airlines employee who had worked the crash recovery in Cali adopted the dog and brought it to the United States.

Gravina brought in manager Osvaldo Jaconi, who worked a minor miracle by leading the team to a seventh-place finish.

Each victim of tzaraas mentioned by the Bible is stated to have received the condition due to some transgression of biblical laws, including Joab being cursed for the murder of Abner ( whose blood was shed deceitfully in time of peace ), Gehazi ( for 1. rebelling against Elisha's decision to not take payment for a miracle God had worked 2. working deceitfully to take the payment 3. lying to Elisha, saying he hadn't done the thing ); and Uzziah for presuming to burn incense in the Holy Temple — violating a clear and direct Commandment of G-d ( which prohibited anyone besides the priests to burn incense ).

Oh, you can submit a requisition for a miracle if you want to make a fool of yourself.

`` A miracle, a revelation, it was like a curtain suddenly torn away to reveal something nude ''.

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

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,

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

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.

They were able to get away with innuendo that would have been unheard of a mere ten years before — in one episode, Sandy refers to Julian and his skill at the piano as: " a miracle of dexterity at the cottage upright "; innocuous in itself, unless one knows that a ' cottage ' was the polari term for a public toilet where men met for anonymous sexual encounters and ' upright ' referred to an erection.

The " miracle " raised the morale of the crusaders, and to their surprise they were able to rout Kerbogha outside Antioch.

By invoking a god or spirit by name, one was thought to be able to summon that spirit's power for some kind of miracle or magic ( see Luke 9: 49, in which the disciples claim to have seen a man driving out demons using the name of Jesus.

Moses, led there by an ancient holy woman named Serach, was able by a miracle to raise the sarcophagus and to take it with him at the time of the Exodus.

The president of a fictional African country describes the kind of " miracle " needed to save his country from the ravages of AIDS by referencing an American scientist who was able to save the world from hunger through the development of a new type of wheat.

But somehow, Jan Antonin was able to build dozens of city towns around the world in a span of time less than ten years which is truly a miracle.

One miracle attributed to Jesus in the Qur ' an, but not in the New Testament, is his being able to speak at only a few days old, to defend his mother from accusations of adultery.

" He also underlined the fact that " modern " Patuá has been strongly influenced by Cantonese, namely since the beginning of the 20th century, adding that it was " quite a miracle " that Patuá has been able to survive for four centuries in Macau, considering that " Chinese culture is quite absorbing.

In the Middle Ages, one common form of mystical miracle, especially for women, was the Eucharistic miracle, such as being able to eat nothing other than the communion host.

Xavier believed he was only a channel for the work of the spirits ; that he was not able to produce any miracle, such as healing people, and he could not contact someone that was dead, unless that person was willing to be contacted.

That his Motor Gun Boat, now full of dead and wounded, should have survived and should have been able to withdraw through an intense barrage of close range fire was almost a miracle.

The book ends with Lancelot performing a miracle, which is a miracle in and of itself due to the fact that he is not a virgin ( which had been the requirement for being able to do so ).

Strauss had hoped for a miracle and he got one in the form of de Villemessant, the dedicatee of the ' Figaro-Polka ' who skillfully championed Strauss in his newspaper ' Le Figaro ' on 24 May 1867 onwards that the composer was able to score a triumph when invited to conduct at a ball hosted by Princess Pauline Metternich at the Austrian embassy on 28 May.

Koide, the class president's assistant calls it a " miracle " that he was able to obtain their full names.

An astronaut crashes on an alien planet -- but by some miracle he is quickly able to contact Earth and speak directly to the space agency behind his mission.

Commander LeDoux was able to use contacts in the AEC to get approval to move the generator in only 4 days, which he considered " a miracle in itself.

It is without doubt that a small shrine would have already existed at the spot before the ‘ miracle ’, tended by the shepherds who would have not been able to get to a town to take part in a Mass.