GOD WE THANK YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE NEAR.
WE TELL ABOUT THE MIRACLES YOU DO.
PSALM 75.1
The holiday season is almost here. Christmas and Thanksgiving are a wonderful opportunity to ponder the mystery of miracles. The miracle of the birth of Jesus and the many miracles we experience in our own lives are only the beginning. Let’s turn to the saints for their insight and pearls of wisdom.
1. We are nothing without God, but if we put our lives in God’s hands, miracles happen.
2. Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
3. To see the angels is not a great miracle, but to see your own mistakes is a miracle.
4. Let us not grow tired of prayer, confidence works miracles.
5. I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
6. You can work miracles by touching the hearts of those entrusted to your care.
You Can Work Miracles
by Touching the Hearts
of Those Entrusted to Your Care.
St. John Baptist de la Salle
7. I have wrought sufficient miracles today. The Lord who works through me will also work through you.
I have wrought sufficient miracles today.
The Lord who works through me
will also work through you.
St. Vincent Ferrer
8. Who can put Mary’s high honor into words. She is both mother and virgin. I am overwhelmed by the wonder of this miracle.
St. Cyral of Alexandria
9. Have faith in Mary, Help of Christians, and you will see what miracles are.
10. Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.
11. I never have any difficulty believing in miracles, since I experienced the miracle of change in my own heart.
12. In His kindness, our Lord wished to strengthen your faith, for without it, Christ could not have performed many of His miracles.
St. Jerome Emiliani
In His Kindness, Our Lord wished to strengthen
your faith, for without it,
Christ could not have performed
many of His miracles.
St. Jerome Emiliani
13. Baptism is the miracle of being born again.
Baptism is the Miracle of being Born Again.
St. John Paul the Great
Suffering for God is better than working miracles.
Suffering for God is better than working miracles.
St. John of the Cross
15. The ressurection is the greatest miracle of Christianity, and everything depends on it.
St. Paul VI
THE RESURRECTION
IS THE GREATEST MIRACLE
OF CHRISTIANITY
AND EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON IT.
St. Paul VI
16. God would have to work a little miracle to make me grow up in an instant, and this miracle He performed on that unforgettable Christmas day.
God would have to work a little miracle to make me grow
up in an instant, and this miracle He performed
on that unforgettable Christmas Day.
St. Therese of Lisieux
17. Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.
MIRACLES ARE SIGNS
NOT TO THEM THAT BELIEVE,
BUT TO THEM THAT DO NOT.
St. Thomas Aquinas
18. All Thy sacred miracles cause me nothing but thoughts of Thy power, of Thy greatness, and of Thy love. Who would not become enamored of Thee, seeing by how many inscrutable and deep ways Thou art trying to draw this soul to Thee!
All Thy sacred miracles cause me nothing but
thoughts of Thy power, of Thy greatness,
and of Thy love.
St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi
19. Turn to God. Believe in God. Trust Him for a miracle.
20. The World lives, unmindful of the sufferings of Jesus, which are the Miracle of Miracles, of the Love of God!
21. We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed
22. If we struggle daily to become saints, each of us in his own situations in the world…I assure you that God will make us into instruments that can work miracles.
23. A thick and shapeless trunk would never believe that it could become a statue, admired as a miracle of sculpture, and would never consent to submit itself to the chisel of the sculptor who sees by his genius what he can make of it.
A thick and shapeless trunk would never
believe that it could become a statue,
admired as a Miracle of sculpture,
and would never consent to submit
itself to the chisel of the sculptor
who sees by his genius what he can make of it.
St. Ignatius of Loyola
24. The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it!
The Miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it!
Mother Teresa
25. He is not past, He is present now, and though He is not seen, He is here, the same God who walked the water, who did miracles, is in the tabernacle.
He is not past, He is present now, and though He is not seen, He is here, the same God who walked the water, who did miracles, is in the tabernacle.
St. John Henry Newman
