Archilochus Quotes

Man believes in the possible, but God believes in the impossible.

Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men.

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

I like the probability of the impossible.

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.

God makes the impossible possible. I believe in Him.

The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.

Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense.

The more impossible the situation, the greater God accomplishes His work.

While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.

A man walking through a wall is a miracle. A man both walking and not walking through a wall at the same time and in the same respect is a contradiction. God can perform miracles but not contradictions - not because his power is limited, but because contradictions are meaningless.

God raises the level of the impossible.

Faith is believing in the impossible because we have a God who is master of impossible.

Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.

God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick.

God delights in answering our impossible prayers.

When God wants to move a mountain, he does not take a bar of iron, but he takes a little worm. The fact is, we have too much strength. We are not weak enough. It is not our strength that we want. One drop of God's strength is worth more than all the world.

I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles.

I wish to work miracles.

Miracles, or those extraordinary manifestations of the power of god, are not for the unbeliever; they are to console the Saints, and to strengthen and confirm the faith of those who love, fear, and serve God.

The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a good idea, if it means destroying the very order of things in order to improve them.

Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?

The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth. Not that the Victorians were unique in this respect. Modern writers also indulge in edifying miracles though they generally prefer to use them to procure unhappy endings, by which piece of thaumaturgy they win the title of realists.

There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.