Cattle Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“although we very clearly see the sun, we ought not therefore to determine that it is only of the size which our sense of…

— Anonymous

“Our faith may be big enough to elicit a miracle, but our faith is seldom large enough to embrace it once it actually happens.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe unit, and…

— George Eliot

“Stars, on the other hand, were inexplicable. Not holes in the sky, not candles, not electric lights, not anything that resembled what you knew.…

— Paul Auster

“But gradually through the tumultuous talk of the days and the nightlong wonderings when I sat groping for hope through the darkness, there began…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

I am not astonished that men who lean, as it were, on an atom, should stumble at the smallest efforts they make for discovering…

— Jean de la Bruyere

But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can…

— Xenophanes

“And no small part of this unpredicted miracle was the curious innocence of these people in the very midst of their freedom and their…

— Anne Rice

“unlike, say, the sun, or the rainbow, or earthquakes, the fascinating world of the very small never came to the notice of primitive peoples.…

— Richard Dawkins

“The curse that came before history has laid on us all a tendency to be weary of wonders. If we saw the sun for…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Such is the passage, x. 14, where, after giving an account that the sun stood still upon Gibeon, and the moon in the valley…

— Thomas Paine

“This did not have to be the case, because the faith was, from its very beginnings, greater, broader, and deeper. Even today faith in…

— Pope Benedict XVI