Miracles Quotes

God is "the [blank_start]ground[blank_end] of being." - Paul Tillich

Miracles "cannot without [blank_start]confusion[blank_end] be taken as a sign of [blank_start]divine[blank_end] interference with the natural [blank_start]order[blank_end]." - R.F. [blank_start]Holland[blank_end]

Definition miracle #1 - "A genuine miracle is first of all an event which is [blank_start]astonishing[blank_end], [blank_start]unusual[blank_end], shaking, without [blank_start]contradicting[blank_end] the rational structure of [blank_start]reality[blank_end]." - Paul [blank_start]Tillich[blank_end]

Definition miracle #2 - "In the second place it is an event which points to the [blank_start]mystery[blank_end] of being, expressing its [blank_start]relation[blank_end] to us in a [blank_start]definite[blank_end] way." - Paul Tillich

Definition miracle #3 - "In the third place, it is an occurrence which is received as a [blank_start]sign[blank_end] - event in an [blank_start]ecstatic[blank_end] appearance." - [blank_start]Paul[blank_end] Tillich

"God is as [blank_start]present[blank_end] in what is [blank_start]not miraculous[blank_end] as in miraculous." - [blank_start]Brian Davies[blank_end]

Miracles are "[blank_start]generalisations[blank_end] formulated [blank_start]retrospectively[blank_end] to cover whatever has, in fact, happened." - John [blank_start]Hick[blank_end] #1

"We can declare [blank_start]a priori[blank_end] that there are no miracles." - [blank_start]John Hick[blank_end] #2

John [blank_start]20:31[blank_end] - " [...] But these are [blank_start]written[blank_end] so that you may [blank_start]believe[blank_end] that Jesus is the [blank_start]Son of God[blank_end]."

Science - new discoveries contradict once impossible; [blank_start]a posteriori[blank_end] - example - "man on the [blank_start]moon[blank_end]" - [blank_start]Brian Davies[blank_end]

"A [blank_start]wise[blank_end] man proportions his [blank_start]belief[blank_end] to the [blank_start]evidence[blank_end]." - Hume (a posteriori)

"No testimony is [blank_start]sufficient[blank_end] to establish a miracle, unless [...] [blank_start]falsehood[blank_end] is more miraculous [...] than the event which he [blank_start]relates[blank_end] [...]" - Hume

Definition - "A [blank_start]Transgression[blank_end] of a law of nature by the [blank_start]volition[blank_end] of the deity, or by the [blank_start]interposition[blank_end] of some invisible [blank_start]agent[blank_end]." - Hume

"Nothing is [blank_start]esteemed[blank_end] a miracle if it ever happened in the [blank_start]common course[blank_end] of nature." - Hume

"A [blank_start]coincidence[blank_end] can be taken [blank_start]religiously[blank_end] as a [blank_start]sign[blank_end] and called a miracle." (eg: [blank_start]train[blank_end]) - R.F. Holland

Coincidence miracle example - [blank_start]Nebraska[blank_end] Church Choir - usually met at 7:20 - all more than 5 minutes late on 1 March [blank_start]1950[blank_end] - explosion 7:25 - Peter [blank_start]Vardy[blank_end]

"Which is more likely: that the [blank_start]whole natural order[blank_end] is suspended, or that a [blank_start]Jewish minx[blank_end] should tell a lie?" - Hume (Virgin Conception)

"The Christian religion not only was at first [blank_start]attended[blank_end] with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any [blank_start]reasonable[blank_end] person without one." - Hume

"The [blank_start]intention[blank_end] of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how [blank_start]one[blank_end] goes to heaven, not how heaven goes." - [blank_start]Galileo[blank_end] ([blank_start]15[blank_end]64 - [blank_start]16[blank_end]42)

Joshua 10:[blank_start]13[blank_end] - "So the [blank_start]sun[blank_end] [blank_start]stood[blank_end] [blank_start]still[blank_end], and the moon stopped, till the nation [blank_start]avenged[blank_end] itself on its enemies [...] The sun stopped in the [blank_start]middle[blank_end] of the sky and [blank_start]delayed[blank_end] going down about a full day."

A posteriori - [blank_start]Principle[blank_end] of [blank_start]Induction[blank_end]: [blank_start]future[blank_end] events will take place based on past [blank_start]experience[blank_end]

"[blank_start]irrational[blank_end] to believe the highly [blank_start]improbable[blank_end] as this is to believe [blank_start]against[blank_end] the [blank_start]evidence[blank_end]." - ([blank_start]Wilkinson[blank_end])

never "a [blank_start]sufficient[blank_end] [blank_start]number[blank_end] of men, of such [blank_start]unquestioned[blank_end] [blank_start]good[blank_end] [blank_start]sense[blank_end], education and learning, as to [blank_start]secure[blank_end] us against all [blank_start]delusion[blank_end] in themselves" - Hume