Miracles

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As far as miracles are concerned, we prefer those which, like the laying of the transatlantic cable, have palpable results.

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This is primitive man again, who was wont to construct a god and a devil to take the praise and the blame for his varying fortunes...

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...all should be taught that the forces, the facts in Nature, cannot be controlled or changed by prayer or praise, by supplication, ceremony, or sacrifice; that there is no magic, no miracle; that force can be overcome only by force, and that the whole world is natural.

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If man waited for God to feed him he would starve to death.

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I see nothing inconsistent in monks of Christ building a flying machine, although it would be more like them to build a praying machine.

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Rigault: What is your profession?

Priest: Servant of God.

Rigault: Where does your master live?

Priest: Everywhere.

Rigault (to a clerk): Take this down: X, describing himself servant of one called God, a vagrant.

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Imagine the Greeks of the Eastern Empire getting in a frenzy to find out whether the light that emerged from the navel of Jesus Christ was organic or inorganic, while the Turks were in the act of putting their ladders up against the wall of Byzantium!

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April 13, 2020 : Miracles -- Added.

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