Edward Gibbon Quotes

If something comes up that is completely freaky, it's spiritual-looking to the scientist, the first explanation is not going to be that it's God, because the history of that has failed. It would have to be, like, the hundredth explanation.

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.

Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so that they would wonder and be astonished at seeing not great but unusual things, who are unmoved by things daily seen. For the government of the world is a greater miracle than feeding five thousand men from five loaves; yet at the former no one wonders, the latter astonishes all men: not as a greater wonder, but as a rarer.

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.

Miracles are God's coups d'etat.

Miracles are merely events that happen just when they are needed.

God doesn't have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion.

The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible

To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.

Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

Miracles occur, If you dare to call those spasmodic Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's begun again, The long wait for the angel, For that rare, random descent.

Every miracle brings the release of glory.

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children

God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.

Hunter S. Thompson brings a lunatic genius to ordinary events, and I bring an ordinary sensibility to lunatic events.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer.

The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies!

Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.

What's happening in the world is a natural course of events.

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.