Yet I will say with regard to miracles, there is…

Portrait of Brigham Young

Brigham Young

Yet I will say with regard to miracles, there is no such thing save to the ignorant—that is, there never was a result wrought out by God or by any of His creatures without there being a cause for it. There may be results, the causes of which we do not see or understand, and what we call miracles are no more than this—they are the results or effects of causes hidden from our understandings.

Journal of Discourses 140
Latter-day Saints' Book Depot, Liverpool, England, 1871, speech