In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
“For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.”
“Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.”