[328] What makes us not believe in the true miracles, is want of love.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

For the fact of his returning may seem admirable to us nowadays, but in those times he could not have done otherwise.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Beyond all doubt the word "offering" in the mass has arisen and has remained until now, because in the times of the Apostles, when some of the practices of the Old Testament were still observed, the Christians brought food, money and necessities, which were distributed in connection with mass among the needy, as I have said before.[13]
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Martin Luther

They use no bells in their tents; but the slaves or servants are called by the master when wanted, one generally standing in the corner of the tent to superintend the others.
— from An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Shabeeny, Abd Salam, active 1820

A swallow darted through the slit high up in the wall, skimmed round the rafters, intent upon nest building in the thatch—a rat ran across my feet.
— from Ben o' Bill's, the Luddite: A Yorkshire Tale by D. F. E. Sykes

It is horribly characteristic that I wrote them in an undated notebook, but I think that luncheon which lasted so long must have been in 1911.
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

So when I complimented General Bellicose on his geldings and noted that they went square without boots or weights, and that he used no blinders, it thawed the social ice, and we were as brothers.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen by Elbert Hubbard

Let us, I say, confess it; yet let us not believe in the Truth the less on account of it.
— from Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) by John Henry Newman

or whether this action upon living bodies, so different from its usual nature, be imparted to the gum, merely by a change in the proportions of its radicals, so slight as to be unobservable in its chemical analysis?
— from A System of Pyrotechny Comprehending the theory and practice, with the application of chemistry; designed for exhibition and for war. by James Cutbush

Just as the fierce and brutal savage, entering into military combination, under no better instincts than self-defence and natural belligerence, yet learned by virtue of that combination new and noble qualities; so the still fierce and brutal soldier, entering into industrial combination under no better instincts than those of sex-attraction and physical wants in increasing degree, yet learned, by virtue of this form of union, new qualities even more valuable to the race.
— from The home: its work and influence by Charlotte Perkins Gilman