Father Brown on Miracles

"I'm exactly in the position of the man who said, 'I can believe the impossible, but not the improbable.' ... It really is more natural to believe a preternatural story, that deals with things we don't understand, than a natural story that contradicts things we do understand."

—Father Brown, in G. K. Chesterton, The Curse of the Golden Cross, The Complete Father Brown ch29, quoting Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying, which says "Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."