“The menopause of Sarah became her menostart; this is feminine beauty! The death plot against Mordecai became his life spring; this is masculine beauty! A kind of life lived in God’s word is a life of miraculous beauty!”

“The amazing miracle of death, when one second you’re walking and talking, and the next second you’re an object.”

“People like mystery. They want nothing explained, because when things are explained then there is no hope left. I have seen folk dying and known there is nothing to be done, and I am asked to go because the priest will soon arrive with his dish covered by a cloth, and everyone prays for a miracle. It never happens. And the person dies and I get blamed, not God or the priest, but I!”

“I hope for what I have not yet seen.”

“Is there any greater miracle than this holy moment?”

“Nature” is another name for the miracles that are so commonplace in our lives that we take for granted and have grown used to seeing them.”

“…Opal is dead, and I don’t see how a healer can change that! It’s not something to joke about.”Joke?” Then Owen hit his forehead and cried, “That’s right, you haven’t heard!”Heard what?” asked Adrien, who felt an insane glimmer of hope return to his heart.Death is on strike! She hasn’t done that for two centuries, and it’s very annoying. Your friend is alive.”Very annoying?” repeated Amber. “I don’t see what’s so annoying about a miracle! What is Death on strike for?”Everyone knows that Death lives in Fairytale-in an inaccessible area, obviously. And just a few hours ago, she decided to stop working. So, for now, no one can die.”

“An opportunity is a miracle waiting to happen.”

“No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.”

“What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.”

“Never worry yourself in calculating God’s miracles because you will never get the answer, only believe them and they work for you.”

“She doesn’t need your money. Even a penniless fool like you can make her fall in love with you. That’s just miracle.”

“It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.”

“If you believe in something because of miracles, then another kind of miracles can make you deny it.”

“The thumb may look like an ordinary finger, truly it is a miraculous gift from God! If all the fingers were long and straight, it would be impossible for us to hold or catch anything easily! If there were no thumb, then human civilisation would lag way behind!”