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Good Remarks & Proverbs

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