Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life;
Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign,
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Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life;
Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign,
Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife,
And so turns wine to water back again.
- Richard Crashaw,

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.

Don't believe in miracles -- depend on them.

Don't believe in miracles -- depend on them.

Even miracles take a little time

Even miracles take a little time

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.

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

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.

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add read more

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

Had Tibet not fallen away from dharma
China could not have invaded.
(in reference to violation of Buddha's
forbidding animal read more

Had Tibet not fallen away from dharma
China could not have invaded.
(in reference to violation of Buddha's
forbidding animal slaughter).