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Anecdotes There was a young man once, some where in the northern part of Tenn I think, who was converted when he was quite young, at 11 years of age. After that he & his father used to work in the same field side by side, day after day, they seemed more like Brother & Brother, than Father & Son; for they would talk about Jesus & tell each other's experience
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Miracles: A miracle does not prove the truth of a doctrine or the divine mission of him that brings it to pass. The doctrine must first commend itself to the conscience as being good, truly then can the miricle seal it as divine. [French]
Man is not only unable to realize the perfect, he is unable to conceive it. The idea is as much a gift as the power to realize that idea. [French]
The Church: The wonder of the existence & subsistence of the Church in the world is itself so great that to believe or not to believe the miracles is only choosing an alternative of wonders. If you do not believe the miracles, you must at least believe this miracle, that the world was converted without miracles. Augustine
Nature: Nature is but the outward expression of the will of God. God cannot be contrary to God. Augustine
God Symonides, when asked by [Hero] king of Sicily "Who God was" requested at first one, then two, three & even four days, to think of the question & finally answered, "The more I reflect on the subject, the more I am convinced of my own ignorance."
Natural Sense of Religion There has never been a State of atheists. If you wander over the earth, you may find cities without walls, without kings without [mint], without theatre or gymnasium, but you will never find a city without a God, without prayer without oracle, without sacrifice. Sooner [?] a city stand without foundations, than a State without belief in the Gods. This is the bond of all society & the pillar of all legislation." Plutarch, in reply to the Epicurean
Revelation Thus it has ever been with the revelation of the divine. What it does not draw to itself it drive from itself, what it does not win to obedience it arrays in active hostility. So it was clearly manifested in the Jews, who found fault with Christ in the case of the "Important man" John VI-16
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