Quotes about Reliability

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't.

I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.

Early testimony supports historical claims. The closer the time between the event and testimony about it, the more reliable the witness, since there is less time for exaggeration, and even legend, to creep into the account.

'Credit' is another word for trustworthiness.

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Your rock doth not ebb and flow, but your sea.

Every time I open my Bible I will read it as the Word of 'God, that cannot lie;' and when I get a promise or a threatening, I will either rejoice or tremble because I know that these stand fast.

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.

There's many a man who never tells his adventures, for he can't hope to be believed.