Yea marvel, quod I, and think it hard to be believed that saints hear us. And I, while we see that the things that we pray for we obtain, marvel much more how men can doubt whether the prayers be heard or not. When saints were in this world at liberty and might walk the world about, ween we that in heaven they stand tied to a post? But the wonder is how they may see and hear in sundry places at once. If we two could not more but feel, and neither see nor hear, we would as well wonder, or if we could not wonder thereof because we could not hear thereof, yet should we be far from any conceiving in our minds that it were possible for a man to see or hear further than he can feel. For we that prove it, and do see and hear indeed, cannot yet see the cause, nor in wise cease to wonder by what reasons and mean it may be that I should see two churches or towns, each of them two a mile asunder, and both twain as far from me as each of them from the other, and measure so great quantities with so small a measure as is the little apple of mine eye. And of hearing many men's voices or any man's words, coming at once into many men's ears, standing far asunder, hath like difficulty to conceive.... ... Now when we may with our fleshy eye and ear in this gross body see and hear things far distant from us, and from sundry places far distant asunder, marvel we so much that blessed angels and holy souls, being mere spiritual substances, uncharge of all burdenous flesh and bones, may, in doing the same, as far pass and exceed us and our powers natural, as the lively soul herself exceedeth our deadly body, nor cannot believe they hear us though we find they help us but if we perceived by what means they do it-- as wether they see and hear us coming hither to us, or our voice coming hence to them, or whether God hear and see all and show it to them, or whether they behold it in him, as one doth in a book the thing that he readeth, or whether God by some other way doth utter it unto them, as one doth in speaking- except we may know the means we will not else believe the matters? As wise as were he that would not believe he can see, because he cannot perceive by what means he may see.

---- St. Thomas More, Dialogue Concerning Tyndale Book II Chp 8
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