David Hume Quotes

But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology says to you in effect, 'Admit God and with Him the risk of a few miracles, and I in return will ratify your faith in uniformity as regards the overwhelming majority of events.

The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

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

You'll be happy to know that the universal law that created miracles hasn't been repealed.

The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.

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

But the age of miracles hadn't passed.

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

The resurrection of Christ is therefore emphatically a test question upon which depends the truth or falsehood of the Christian religion. It is either the greatest miracle or the greatest delusion which history records.

If one believes, then miracles occur.

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.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

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

I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

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

Miracles seldom occur in the lives of those who do not consider them possible.

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

When it began, Christianity was regarded as a system entirely beyond the range and scope of human reason; it was impious to question; it was impious to examine; it was impious to discriminate. On the other hand, it was visibly instinct with the supernatural. Miracles of every order and degree of magnitude were flashing forth incessantly from all its parts.

Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.

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

The most extraordinary of all the things called miracles, related in the New Testament, is that of the devil flying away with Jesus Christ, and carrying him to the top of a high mountain; and to the top of the highest pinnacle of the temple, and showing him and promising to him all the kingdoms of the world . How happened it that he did not discover America? or is it only with kingdoms that his sooty highness has any interest.

Miracles pass and I see. Great wonders speak and I listen.