Quote#Politics & Power
The Miracles of the Church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces…
Quote byWilla Cather · 1873–1947
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), Book I, Ch. 4.
English (original)
The Miracles of the Church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
— Willa Cather
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