“Christ's miracles were vivid manifestations to the senses that He is the Saviour of the body — and now as then the issues of life and death are in His hands — that our daily existence is a perpetual miracle. The extraordinary was simply a manifestation of God's power in the ordinary.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 65.

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British writer and theologian 1816–1853

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