Patristic Quote of the Day

Why didn’t they stay? Why didn’t they perform miracles? For it he stayed a long time where he was stoned (i.e., at Lystra), all the more could he have stayed here. What was the reason then? Because God did not always want them to perform miracles. For it is no less a miracle for them, persecuted as they are, to prevail without performing miracles. Therefore, just as now he is prevailing without miracles, often then he wished to prevail in the same way.—St. John Chrysostom, Homily 37 on Acts