“For all those who believe, expect a miracle.”

“A critic is a man who expects miracles.”

“Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.”

“Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.”

“Those who will expect to get will never get and those who will least expect will get.”

“...it was not a matter of miracles. It was not an expectation of miracles, frivolous in its impatience. Alyosha did not need miracles then for the triumph of certain convictions (it was not that at all), nor so that some sort of former, preconceived idea would quickly triumph over another...Again, it was not miracles he needed, but only a "higher justice," which, as he believed, had been violated--it was this that wounded his heart so cruelly and suddenly...it was justice, justice he thirsted for, not simply miracles!”