“Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.”
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767–1794) military and political leader
Tous les arts ont produit des merveilles: l'art de gouverner n'a produit que des monstres. <br class="br"> Discours sur la Constitution à donner à la France http://www.royet.org/nea1789-1794/archives/discours/stjust_constitution_24_04_93.htm, speech to the National Convention (April 24, 1793).
“The real world is where the monsters are.”
Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief
Source: The Lightning Thief
“Where there is great love there are always miracles.”
Willa Cather book Death Comes for the Archbishop
Book I, Ch. 4
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
“It was evident that the treatment program’s building was a place where miracles happen.”
Virgil Miller Newton (1938) American priest
Miller Newton in: Beth Polson and Miller Newton (1984). Not my Kid: A Parent's Guide to Kids and Drugs. Avon, NY, NY, pg 3.
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- Existence and expediency, p. 86 -->
Context: Authentic existence involves exaltation, sensitivity to the holy, awareness of indebtedness.
Existence without transcendence is a way of living where things become idols and idols become monsters.
Denial of transcendence contradicts the essential truth of being human. Its roots can be traced either to stolidity of self-contentment or to superciliousness of contempt, to moods rather than to comprehensive awareness of the totality and mystery of being.
Denial of transcendence which claims to unveil the truth of being is an inner contradiction, since the truth of being is not within being or within our consciousness of being but rather a truth that transcends our being.
Ethan Allen (1738–1789) American general
Source: Reason: The Only Oracle Of Man (1784), Ch. VI Section III - Rare and Wonderful Phenomena no evidence of Miracles, nor are Diabolical Spirits able to effect them, or Superstitious Traditions to confirm them, nor can Ancient Miracles prove Recent Revelations
