Brief Overview: By 40 signs, we are referring to what many refer to as the “miracles” performed by Jesus, some 2,000 years ago. While these events were carefully recorded in the New Testament Bible, there are also numerous non-Biblical references to these events. To discover more about these 40 Signs, - Click - on buttons below (Complete Overview or "Display by Category/All" or Author Name)
Miracles are signs, and like all signs, they are never about themselves; they're about whatever they are pointing toward. Miracles point to something beyond themselves. But to what? To God himself. That's the point of miracles - to point us beyond our world to another world.
- Eric Metaxas
Catching the apple doesn't overturn the law of gravity or the formulation of a new law. It's merely an intervention of a person with freewill who overrides the natural causes operative in that particular circumstance. And that is, essentially, is what God does when he causes a miracle to occur.
- William Lane Craig (PhD)
If God is real, and I believe he is, then he is outside of nature. He is, therefore, not limited by the laws of nature in the way that we are.
- Francis Collins (PhD)
Only Jesus has prophecies made hundreds of years in advance made literally true. Only He did miracles; only His immediate followers claimed He died and rose from the dead, so in comparison, He comes out superior to other great religious leaders.
- Norman L. Geisler (PhD)
I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.
- Nick Vujicic
God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.
- Peter Kreeft (PhD)
The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.
- C. S. Lewis
Jesus' healings are not supernatural miracles in a natural world. They are the only truly 'natural' things in a world that is unnatural, demonized and wounded.
- Jurgen Moltmann
In the proper sense, a miracle is an event which is not producible by the natural causes that are operative in effect at the time and place the event occurs.
- William Lane Craig (PhD)
Christ's miracles were not the suspension of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. They were a reminder of what once was prior to the fall and a preview of what will eventually be ...
- Timothy Keller (PhD)
Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole, while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.
- William Golding (Sir)
The greatest miracle of all time, without any close seconds, is the universe. It is the miracle of all miracles, one that ineluctably points with the combined brightness of every star to something - or Someone - beyond itself.
- Eric Metaxas
His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.
- Timothy Keller (PhD)
If you don't get a miracle, become one.
- Nick Vujicic
You can understand why I'm a believer. I have seen miracles.
- Ben Carson (PhD)
I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.
- Peggy Noonan
Miracles in fact do not break the laws of nature.
- C. S. Lewis
many of the same historians simultaneously reject the historicity of any of the miracles described in the New Testament in spite of the fact that these miracles are described alongside the events that scholars accept as historical. Why…? Because they have a presuppositional bias against the supernatural.
- J. Warner Wallace
He was perhaps the messiah concerning whom the prophets have recounted wonders.
- Flavious Josephus (93 AD)
The deeds of our Savior were always before you, for they were true miracles; those that were healed, those that were raised from the dead.
- Quadradus (125AD)
At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us.
- Alistair Begg
I don't have a problem with the concept that miracles might occasionally occur at moments of great significance, where there is a message being transmitted to us by God Almighty. But as a scientist, I set my standards for miracles very high.
- Francis Collins (PhD)
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
- Augustine of Hippo
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C. S. Lewis
He preached teaching Israel and performing so many wonders and miracles, and He loved them exceedingly.
- Barnabas (134AD)
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
- Blaise Pascal
I never have any difficulty believing in miracles, since I experienced the miracle of a change in my own heart.
- Augustine of Hippo
Healing and miracles have been a mystery to men of all times. To some, the phenomenon is frightening, while others find it exhilarating.
- Mother Angelica
In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
- David Ben-Gurion
God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
- Natalie Cole
Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed‐bugs in the cracks of walls and furniture, miracles lurk in the lacunae of science. The scientist plasters up these cracks in our knowledge; the more militant Rationalist swats the bugs in the open. Both have their proper sphere and they should realize that they are allies.
- John Haldane
Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary. Belief in miracles, far from depending on an ignorance of the laws of nature, is only possible in so far as those laws are known.
- C. S. Lewis
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