Mark Twain Quotes About Miracles

• Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Knowing, Miracle

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

• All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Taken, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4678, Delphi Classics

• If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

  Mark Twain

  Miracle, Criminals, Answers

  Mark Twain (1962). “Letters from the earth”, Buccaneer Books

• All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

  Mark Twain

  Miracle, Saint, Hotel

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.30, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Perseverance, Determination

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.8022, Delphi Classics

• There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

  Mark Twain

  Miracle, Awe Inspiring, Awe

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.272, Courier Corporation

• God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day when they were again needed. Therefore it was an odd idea to save specimens of them for eleven months in the ark, whilst aware that eight persons could not feed or water them by any human possibility. If they were to be preserved by miracle, the ark was not necessary - to let them swim would have answered the purpose and been more indubitably miraculous.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Eight, Ideas

• In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of aerial navigation-and along with that belief is the hope that that genius will reveal his miracle before they die, and likewise a dread that he will poke off somewhere and die himself before he finds out that he has such a wonder lying dormant in his brain. We all know the air can be navigated-therefore, hurry up your sails and bladders-satisfy us-let us have peace.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Believe, Sleep

  Mark Twain, John C. Gerber, Terry Firkins (1983). “Tom Sawyer Abroad ; Tom Sawyer Detective”, p.180, Univ of California Press

• Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Miracle

  Mark Twain (2016). “Roughing It”, p.298, Xist Publishing

• The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

  Mark Twain

  Differences, Miracle, Mermaid

  Mark Twain (1962). “Letters from the Earth”

• You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

  Mark Twain

  Miracle, Style, Too Much

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.203, Createspace Independent Pub

• Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick daughter by a miracle- a miracle like the miracle of Lourdes in our day, for instance- and immediately that head savage was your convert, and filled to the eyes with a new convert´s enthusiasm. You could sit down and make yourself easy now. He would take the ax and convert the rest of the nation himself.

  Mark Twain

  Daughter, Eye, Sick

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.276, Courier Corporation

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