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Miracle Quotes by David Hume
- The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect…
- And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles…
- A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a…
- The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
- No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the…
- There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and…
- When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this…
- Convulsions in nature, disorders, prodigies, miracles, though the most opposite of the plan of a wise superintendent, impress mankind with the strongest sentiments of religion.
More Miracle Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. — Saint Augustine
- The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters. — Diane Ackerman
- Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty… — Martha Beck
- Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting… — Lionel Blue
- There are no miracles in agricultural production. — Norman Borlaug
- We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms.… — Ray Bradbury
- Out of difficulties grow miracles. — Jean de la Bruyere
- To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a… — Bill Bryson
- The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it. — John Burroughs
- We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too. — John Calvin
- God continues to work miracles in my life. — Willie Aames