No One Wonders

Allen Frederick

Ink and Quill … if a dead man is raised to life, all men spring up in astonishment. Yet every day one that had no being is born, and no man wonders, though it is plain to all, without doubt, that it is a greater thing for that to be created which was without being than for that which had being to be restored. Because the dry rod of Aaron budded, all men were in astonishment; every day a tree is produced from the dry earth, … and no man wonders …Five thousand men were filled with five loaves; … every day the grains of seed that are sown are multiplied in a fullness of ears, and no man wonders. All … wondered to see water once turned into wine. Every day the earth’s moisture, being drawn into the root of the vine, is turned by the grape into wine, and no man wonders. Full of wonder then are all the things which men never think to wonder at, because … they are by habit become dull to the consideration of them.

–Gregory the Great, (540-604) Pope of the Roman Catholic Church 590-604
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