By using each of these examples, Moroni is teaching us that no miracle, whatever kind or in whatever manner, is possible without the exercise of faith. “Miracles without number have been wrought by faith by the prophets and saints of all dispensations,” Elder Bruce R. McConkie wrote. “And always faith precedes the miracle; always the power of faith performs the miracle; always the miracle proves that faith was present and in active operation.” (New Witness, p. 199.)