Sentence examples for practical miracle from inspiring English sources
As he wrote in a recent reflection on her spirituality in Commonweal, "How Dorothy Day managed to keep her psychological wholeness over the years in the disorder, disease, mental confusion and violence that mark Catholic Worker houses was a practical miracle to me".
My wife finds a sequence of paintings depicting the miraculous arrival of a raft of huge timbers on the coast just as Monopoli was ready to raise the roof of its first cathedral, one of those very practical miracles that the early Church went in for.
Clemency teases every prisoner as an attainable remedy to incarceration when, as practical matter, it's a penal miracle.
Koreans know that their economic miracle has been built on practical engineering success, not magical thinking.
He thought that the New Testament history of Jesus Christ, viewed simply as history and not as miracle, can lead to a practical rather than a speculative judgment affirming Jesus' divine mission.
Oddly, and in a fashion too complex to expound here (but recognizable to those familiar with Mr. Saramago's brand of secular and hard-earned miracles) it succeeds, transforming in practical ways those it touches.
A similar practical function is served by stories of miracles.
O'Hara proved herself to be an adaptable performer, though, playing a double-crossing German spy in The Fallen Sparrow (1943) as well as the eminently practical mother of Natalie Wood's cynical character in Miracle on 34th Street (1947).
They need practical help and therapeutic support now, not the dubious benefits of a miracle pill at some point in the future.
