Mortality is the pacing of a brief and dangerous watch, and to all sentinels, whether at Elsinore or on the battlements at Mycenae, the coming of dawn has its breath of miracle.

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.

But barring a miracle, and don't hold your breath for it, Chicago will not see the Leningrad-Kirov Ballet, which stems from the ballet cradle of the Maryinsky and is one of the great companies of the world.

Finally, since testimonies tend to conflict with one another when it comes to the miraculous — that is, one man's religious miracle may be contradicted by another man's miracle — any testimony relating to the fantastic is self-denunciating.

The Independent review of the 1995 National Theatre revival praised the production, writing " For three hours of gloriously barbed bliss and bewitchment, Sean Mathias's production establishes the show as a minor miracle of astringent worldly wisdom and one that is haunted by less earthy intimations.

(" Miracle Song ") It is soon revealed to Cora that the miracle is a fake, controlled by a pump inside the rock.

The only person in town who doubts the miracle is Fay Apple, an eternally skeptical young nurse from the Cookie Jar who refuses to believe in miracles.

Fay tries to get Hapgood to expose the miracle, but he warns her no one will believe it is a fake, because it works as a miracle should.

As Fay resumes work, Detmold's real new assistant arrives, and Fay is horrified to realize that she is even more practical, rigid and disbelieving than Fay herself, and the new nurse marches the Cookies off to the next town to disprove the new miracle.

Kings is " history-like ," but it mixes legends, folktales, miracle stories and fiction in with the annals, and its primary explanation for all that happens is God's offended sense of what is right ; it is therefore more fruitful to read it as theological literature in the form of history.

The debate over the credibility of the miracle of Jonah is not simply a modern one.

Augustine responds that if one is to question one miracle, then one should question all miracles as well ( section 31 ).

* 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.

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 ...".

In his autobiography, Just One More Thing ( 2006 ), Falk said that his selection for the film from thousands of other Off-Broadway actors was a " miracle " that " made my career " and that without it, he would not have gotten the other significant movie roles that he later played.

His best-known miracle is said to have taken place when he was preaching in the middle of a large crowd at the Synod of Brefi: the village of Llanddewi Brefi is said to stand on the spot where the ground on which he stood is reputed to have risen up to form a small hill.

It is said that all in the entire Colosseum audience were converted to Christianity upon witnessing this miracle.

It is said that all in the entire Colosseum audience were converted Christianity upon witnessing this miracle.

For example, Lewis said that a miracle is something that comes totally out of the blue.

It is said that Mutina was never sacked by Attila, for a dense fog hid it ( a miracle said to be provided by Saint Geminianus, bishop and patron of Modena ), but it was eventually buried by a great flood in the 7th century and abandoned.

In Blu-ray DVD commentary on the Deleted Scenes with Cassavetes and writer James Kearns, the main theme of the movie was said to be " about a miracle and John's faith in God creating the miracle ".

Heiloo ( From the Dutch heilige loo, " sacred forest ") was given its name because Saint Willibrord was said to have performed a miracle there around 690.

On the site where the miracle of Bergen is said to have happened, a chapel was erected.

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.

The real miracle is that a military junta was willing to let them do it .” Friedman said the “ Chilean economy did very well, but more important, in the end the central government, the military junta, was replaced by a democratic society.

After his death, his body was said to have been the subject of a miracle because it was thought to have not decayed.

Germanus is said to have cured Elafius ' enfeebled son by a miracle that served to persuade the population that Gaulish Catholicism rather than Pelagianism was the true faith.

His presence was said to have cured a woman of her muteness, and that the miracle instantly converted 78 persons.

There's lots of wit and pluck and not much heartbreak ," and Mark Kermode of The Observer said, " When the film succeeds, as it does magnificently in the first two-thirds, one can only marvel at the miracle of a world in which such plotlines could literally land on a producer's doorstep with the morning papers.

" Jay " Brody said it was a " miracle " that the current arena books as many events as it does in its current state.

Her brother is said to have been so affected by this miracle that he decided to abdicate and enter holy orders himself ; however, he came from a notably religious family ( his mother, grandmother and great-aunt all being abbesses ).

The authors called the practice " fourth dimensional surgery ," and wrote " still don ’ t know what to think ; but we have motion pictures to show it wasn ’ t the work of any normal magician, and could very well be just what the Filipinos said it was — a miracle of God performed by a fourth dimensional surgeon.

In a well-known Halakhic ruling regarding the saying of Hallel on Yom Haatzmaut, Yosef writes that although the Jewish people experienced a miracle with the establishment of the State of Israel, the miracle did not include all of the Jewish people and, therefore, Hallel should not be said with a blessing.

The power of every ecclesiastical organization has always rested on the miracle, and the clergy have always proved their divine commission as did Elijah ''.

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 ''.

Poor John will take it as a miracle and have every other independent steel company sitting up nights worrying about us ''.

Columbanus is reported to have performed a miracle in Bregenz: The townpeople had placed a large vessel in the town center, filled with beer.

In John, it is this last miracle, and not the temple incident, that prompts the authorities to have Jesus executed.

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

He grows frantic when he finds that some people have started to follow him around, with even the slightest unusual occurrence being hailed as a " miracle ".

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.

Alluding perhaps to Tylor's " deeper motive ", Geertz remarked that " we have very little idea of how, in empirical terms, this particular miracle is accomplished.

Dougan says that the many critics of Fitzgerald miss the point as he is only an instrument for what Allah wanted to happen – there have been many more literally correct translations, but Fitzgerald ’ s is divine inspiration, something far superior, a miracle.

Columbus is reported to have promised to name the next land he discovered for the Holy Trinity, and considered it a miracle when the first land he sighted was the three peaks of the Trinity Hills.

The growth of many suburbs and satellite settlements around the city proper, following the Italian economic miracle of 1950s – 60s and massive commuting flows, suggest that socioeconomic linkages have expanded well beyond the boundaries of its administrative limits and its agglomeration, creating a region of approximately 9. 3 million people.

The NERICA have appeared in The New York Times ( October 10, 2007 ) and International Herald Tribune ( October 9, 2007 ), trumpeted as miracle crops that will dramatically increase rice yield in Africa and enable an economic resurgence.

Its successes have caused some to call Southeast Asia an economic miracle and Singapore one of the " Four Asian Tigers ".

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.

Only after all other possible explanations have proven inadequate may the Church assume Divine intervention and declare the miracle worthy of veneration by the faithful.

Historians have suggested that the Nican Mopohua can be understood as a variation of the legend of the miracle of the Virgin de los Remedios.

:" 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.

Thanks to the miracle of digital, they're now brandishing walkie-talkies .... Is this what two decades have done to free speech?

sufganiyot סופגניות ) in Israel, have become a traditional Hanukkah food in the recent era, as they are cooked in oil, associated with the holiday account of the miracle of the oil.