How awestriking. How sublime..that out of muck and mud and dirt and slime God makes lemons and God makes limes.

How awestriking. How sublime..that out of muck and mud and dirt and slime God makes lemons and God makes limes.

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of read more

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown
When judges have been babes; great floods have flown
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So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown
When judges have been babes; great floods have flown
From simple sources, and great seas have dried
When miracles have by the greatest been denied.

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat read more

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

Man is the miracle in nature. God
Is the One Miracle to man. Behold,
"There is a read more

Man is the miracle in nature. God
Is the One Miracle to man. Behold,
"There is a God," thou sayest. Thou sayest well:
In that thou sayest all. To Be is more
Of wonderful, than being, to have wrought,
Or reigned, or rested.

Accept a miracle; instead of wit,--
See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.

Accept a miracle; instead of wit,--
See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.

It must be so, for miracles are ceased
And therefore we must needs admit the means
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It must be so, for miracles are ceased
And therefore we must needs admit the means
How things are perfected.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or read more

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her?