“Every attempt to reflect upon the Atonement, to study it, to embrace it, to express appreciation for it, however small or feeble it may be, will kindle the fires of faith and work its miracle towards a more Christlike life. It is an inescapable consequence of so doing. We become like those things we habitually love and admire. And thus, as we study Christ’s life and live his teachings, we become more like him.” MayChristStudyFireTeachingConsequenceMiracleEmbraceAppreciationAdmireAtonementKindlesExpress Appreciation Author:Tad R. Callister
“If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! And the universe itself would be a standing miracle. A miracle might be perhaps defined more exactly as an effect which is not the consequence or effect of any known laws of nature.” IfsMightWould BeLawUniverseCausesKnownEffectsIgnoranceSourceConsequenceStandingMiracleDefinedLaws Of Nature Author:Charles Babbage
“Life from nonlife, like wine from water, has long been considered a miracle wrought by gods or God. Now it is seen to be the near-inevitable consequence of our thermal and chemical circumstances.” LongWaterCircumstancesConsequenceMiracleWineInevitableChemicalsThermal Author:Ursula Goodenough
“The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history. It happens - at a particular date, in a particular place, followed by definable historical consequences. We pass from a Balder or an Osiris, dying nobody knows when or where, to a historical Person crucified (it is all in order) under Pontius Pilate. By becoming fact it does not cease to be myth: that is the miracle.” KnowsHeartPersonsDoeFactsHappensEarthOrderHeavenImaginationChristianityDyingParticularBecomingConsequenceMiracleHistoricalMythCeaseLegendsNobody KnowsOsiris Author:C. S. Lewis
“Notwithstanding all the passionate fulminations of the spokesmen of governments, the inevitable consequences of inflationism and expansionism...are coming to pass. And then, very late indeed, even simple people will discover that Keynes did not teach us how to perform the 'miracle...of turning a stone into bread,' but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.” PeopleGovernmentSimpleTeachLateEatingConsequenceStonesMiraclePassionateSeedsBreadInevitableMiraculousCornProceduresKeynes Author:Ludwig von Mises
“A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high imagination -- daring and lurid and impossible. Yes, a cartoon of the mind.” MindLawImaginationNaturalImpossibleConsequenceMiracleInevitableDaringCartoonNatural LawReversal Book:Going After Cacciato Source: Going After Cacciato
“Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences […] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of life without end.” EndsPositionConsequenceAreasAppreciateMiracleConvictionMeaningfulMortalsGreyDoubtersMiracle Of LifeMost MeaningfulIncredulityGrey Areas Author:Terryl L. Givens