"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature." ― Saint Augustine Topic(s): Nature Tags: contrary, miracles More From Saint Augustine "Patience is the companion of wisdom." "Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you." "God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist." More In Nature "Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses."― Arthur Keith "The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only."― Joseph Wood Krutch "Nature is our chapel."― Bjork