Quotes about Credibility
While passion may induce some people to exaggerate, it may drive others to be all the more meticulous and accurate so as not to compromise the credibility of the message they wish to communicate. As you'll see, we think the authors of the Bible took this meticulous and accurate road.
— Norman Geisler
They are to go forth in the battle-dress of poverty, taking as little with them as a traveler who knows he will get board and lodging with friends at the end of the day. This shall be an expression of their faith, not in men, but in their heavenly father who sent them and will care for them. It is this that will make their gospel credible, for they proclaim the coming Kingdom of God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
If you're going to make up stories about miracles and events that you are claiming really happened, you have to wait until all the eyewitnesses are dead and gone.
— Mark Clark
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters
— Albert Einstein
It's not my name that's at stake.
— Mark Batterson
How do we know whether we are producing life or death? By whether our lives exhibit the beauty of God's character. When people see the way you live, are they drawn closer to God or are they alienated from God? When they observe the way you treat others, do they find the gospel more credible or less credible? That is the standard by which we should measure our actions. Christians are called to be "life-producing machines
— Nancy Pearcey
The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.
— John Maxwell
You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
— Abraham Lincoln
Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.
— Samuel Johnson
Never trust a man who writes more than he reads.
— Samuel Johnson
If we hope to be transformed, we have to allow God's Word to have more credibility than our present feelings.
— Gregory Boyd