This is that also, that Hermes would inferre in his Table of Emeraudes: That which is below, is as that which is above, and contrarywise, to perpetrate miracles of one thing.
To remove our perplexity, Pascal gravely tells us, that it is necessary to judge the doctrine by the miracles, and the miracles by the doctrine; that the doctrine proves the miracles, and the miracles the doctrine.
There is nothing that proves miracles to have been ever performed 127.
Where is the religion, that does not boast of the most admirable doctrine, and which does not produce numerous miracles for its support?
But, you will say, these miracles are written in books, which by tradition have been transmitted to us.
Refutation of the reasoning of Pascal concerning the manner in which we must judge of miracles 131.
I am therefore tempted to believe, that they did not perform the miracles ascribed to them; indeed, such miracles must have gained them numerous partisans among the eye-witnesses, who ought to have protected the operators from abuse.
If my senses are unfaithful guides, I ought not to credit even the miracles wrought before my eyes.
Refutation of the reasoning of Pascal on miracles 131.
Blood of martyrs testifies against the truth of miracles 133.
These miracles are as well attested as any in Holy Scripture.
Venanzio two chapels, painted in fresco, in one of which, where he represented the miracles of the apostles, he surpassed himself in the beauty of the heads and in the general composition; in other respects he is somewhat hasty and indecisive.
Maria delle Grazie; besides the frescos which he executed there and in other places, extolled by writers as miracles of art, but few of which remain to the present day.
In the Duomo of Foligno, a picture by him in fresco, of the Miracles of S.
It is said that the very gifts of miracles and prophecy are revived in him, as among the holy Apostles, and he has been bestirring himself to have a General Council of the Church to look into these matters.
His memory lingered long in Italy, so that it was even claimed that miracles were wrought in his name and by his intercession.
The one of greatest importance in Moscow, though not the most ancient, is that of the Miracles (Chudov) founded in the fourteenth century by St Alexis, the Metropolitan.
Last Judgment, the "Symbol of Faith," and miracles of the Archangel Michael, which represent Russian pictorial art of the seventeenth century.
Naturally the Monastery of the Miracles is closely associated with the more renowned of the wonder-working ikons of Russia.
Thou art the God, the marvellous God, who doest miracles by Thy saints.
The Almighty works no miracles for little cause: one miracle alone need be current throughout Scripture: to wit, that which preserves it clean and safe from every perilous error.
It is right that I should pick my words most carefully, and meditate over every comma, because I am describing miracles too great for careless utterance.
As time rolls on, the miracles grow mean and small, and the evidences our fathers thought conclusive utterly fail to satisfy us.
It is not attested by prophecy, by miraclesor signs.
This is one of the miracles of history--one of the strangest contradictions of the human mind.
Can we hope with the story of Daniel in the lions' den to rival the stupendous miracles of India?
God, governed by infinite caprice, filled the world with miraclesand disconnected events.
That is the church that has preserved all these miraclesfor us.
Compared with him, the most frightful deities of the most barbarous and degraded tribes are miracles of goodness and mercy.
God used to do miracles for him; used to put off a rain several days to give his meeting a chance; used to cure his horse of lameness; used to cure Mr. Wesley's headaches.
Nothing short of repeated miracles could have completed the embarkation of Noah, his family, and the living cargo, or freight.
Now here we can see, that the miracles were not of the sort to convince.
OF all the miracles said to have been wrought by Jesus, as recorded in the Gospels, the casting out of devils are among the foremost.
The power to perform miracles is included in the idea of divine inspiration, and implies the possession of a power superior to all human power.
How superior the miracles wrought by Moses and Aaron to those wrought by the wise men and the sorcerers and the magicians of Egypt!
Miracles flow from Divine power, and are the proper evidence of a Divine mission.
And miracles we think, with Nicodemus, show that a prophet or religious teacher comes from God, because God would not work a miracle in attestation of a falsehood, or to encourage a false teacher.
Never since Aaron's rod went out of practice, or even before it, was there such a wonder-working tool as a pen; greater than all recorded miracles have been performed by pens.
Miracles are ceased, and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.
Pour qui ne les croit pas, il n'est pas de prodiges=--There are no miracles for those who have no faith in them.
Hitherto all miracles have been wrought by thought, and henceforth innumerable will be wrought; whereof we, even in these days, witness some.
Also He worked bodily cures the rather during His earthly ministry; because when He gives these more excellent gifts it is less necessary for Him to show this power by miracles of healing.
Of course this is not often the case, for if miracles were common they would cease to be miracles.
Augustine of Hippo, in numerous passages of his works, refers to the miracles wrought by and through and in the Church as most important if not conclusive evidence of her heavenly character and veracity.
Two Essays on Scripture Miraclesand on Ecclesiastical," by J.
Not universally, but with a sufficient number of persons to ensure the steady increase of the infant Church--though the very miracles which wrought such a vast moral and religious change, were rejected by the unbelievers of the day.
Augustine likewise gives an account of numerous miracles wrought in his own diocese of Hippo,--some through the instrumentality of the sacred remains of S.
Tertullian, a contemporary of his, writing of the hereticks, asks, "I wish to see the miracles which they have worked.
Many of the best known miracles are such that one may imagine this person to effect them by understanding and controlling some unknown natural force, just as we control electricity.
The credibility ofmiracles is to my mind simply a question of evidence.
The most sceptical critics of the miracles recorded in the Gospels can hardly doubt that Christ possessed some special power of calming and healing nervous maladies and perhaps others.
To them we may refer things like the miracles attending birth.
The little towns of Galilee are worse in his eyes than the wicked cities of antiquity because they are not impressed by his miracles and Jerusalem which has slighted all the prophets and finally himself is to receive signal punishment.
Still, though the essence of the doctrine may be detachable from miracles and even be scientific, one cannot read very far in the Vinaya or the Sutta Pitaka without coming upon unearthly beings or supernatural occurrences.
In this curious dialogue the Buddha is asked to authorize the performance of miracles as an advertisement of the true faith.
But though there is no reason to discredit miracles of healing, it is clear that they are not only exaggerated but also distorted by reporters who do not understand their nature.
They are mostly the result of an attempt to describe a mind and will of more than human strength, but the superman thus idealized rarely works miracles of healing.
But on the other hand the weakness of every religion which depends on miracles is that their truth is contested and not unreasonably.
Some miracles of course have a more serious character and can be less easily separated from the essentials of the faith.
The first is that of the infidel who denies the possibility of the miracle, but with that I have nothing to do, as I have already shown that miracles are not within the range of science.
There are various sayings and doings of uninspired men, good actions and bad actions, good words and bad words, interspersed with miracles and other wonders of God’s hand.
Men cavil at the strange miracles recorded in them, but, while men cavil, He refers to no less than nine of these miracles as facts.
When Paul and Barnabas wrought great miracles at Athens, the heathens cried out, "The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
He was execrated as a Samaritan, and his miracles were maliciously ascribed to the power of Beelzebub.
The apostles themselves did not enter into the kingdom of heaven because of the miracles which they performed, nor on account of the gift of tongues conferred upon them, but because they believed in Christ, the Saviour of the world.
Not only do the plain doctrines appertain to us; but all the parables and miracles with which the history of Christ abounds, have their final reference to man.
Wherever this principle is wanting, there the most excellent parts, and even miracles themselves, are of no account at all before God.
His transcendent love met with the highest ingratitude, his illustrious miracles were rewarded with revilings, and his heavenly doctrines with calumnies and lies.
Or perhaps the miracles still happen, but they are spiritual miracles.
You are right, I can work no miracles; but He can work miracles Whom everything in heaven and earth obeys, and if there is need He will work them through me, His instrument.
Did he not himself declare that the power of that dead white worker of miracles has fallen upon him, and who can fight against magic?
He could not fail to believe in the miracleshe himself witnessed, beginning with the sick boy and ending with the old woman who had recovered her sight when he had prayed for her.
His prayers worked miracles for others, but in his own case God had not granted him liberation from this petty passion.
We may observe this in his Miracles of San Domenico, placed in the church belonging to his order, drawn upon a large scale, as well as in other pieces, scattered throughout the city in almost every street.
English nation that approoued his vertue by miracles shewed after his departure out of this life.
Many miracles were wrought by the apostles; multitudes of sick people were brought to be healed.
There were also miracles of healing, and in general the essential characteristics of the Galilaean ministry were continued.
Many of them were miracles of healing; Jesus had power to make the lame to walk, the dumb to speak, the deaf to hear.
Why should we not be surprised to find many miracles grouped at this stage of Bible history?
The particular form of Jesus' miracles depended upon his own inscrutable will; but all of the miracles revealed him as the Master of the world.
Is it not wonderful that no one at the trial of Christ said one word about the miracles he had wrought?
Assertions and miracles are base and spurious coins.
Is it not true that the same gentlemen who believed thoroughly in all the miracles of the New Testament also believed the world to be flat, and were perfectly satisfied that the sun made its daily journey around the earth?
For hundreds of years, miracles were about the only things that happened.
Every one of them believed, not only in the miracles said to have been wrought by Christ, by the apostles, and by other Christians, but every one of them believed in the Pagan miracles.
It will not do to assert that the universe was created, and then say that such creation was miraculous, and, therefore, all miracles are possible.
It seems to me that the most orthodox Christians must admit that many of the miracles recorded in the New Testament are extremely childish.
Does the Archdeacon agree with St. Augustine that over seventy miracles were performed with these bones, and that in a neighboring town many hundreds of miracles were performed?
Throw away all the miracles of the New Testament, and the good teachings of Christ remain--all that is worth preserving will be there still.
I am glad, however, that you admit that the miracles of the Old Testament, or the inspiration of the Old Testament, are not essentials.
Pagan miracles were never denied by the Christian world until late in the seventeenth century.
Sanhedrim enquired of the Apostle Peter, "By what power or by what name, have ye done this;" evidently acknowledging their belief that it was possible to work miracles by the invocation of some mysterious power.
Miracles are but small matters when you fight in the presence of death.
But he added hastily that it was not on board ambulance trains that the true miracles of science and of medicine had come.
And I marveled more and more at these miracles of war when I went abroad the white ship and saw just what it meant, this long journey of the wounded.
And with what cheerfulness, light-heartedness, courtesy, consideration for one another, devotion and loyalty are the Italians accomplishing these miracles of warfare.
Miracles were to be wrought in my favour, the machine of social life pushed with vast effort backward.
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