Charles Eastman Quotes

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.

Logic and faith don't occupy the same side.

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.

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.

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.

Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that.

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

You'll be happy to know that the universal law that created miracles hasn't been repealed.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

But the age of miracles hadn't passed.

To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.

Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them.

Rationally I have no hope, irrationally I believe in miracles.

If one believes, then miracles occur.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

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

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

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

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

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

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

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

Miracles cannot be explained, that is their miraculous nature.

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.

In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.