Quotes about Evidence

15th June, 1872.—Lewalé doubts Sangara on account of having brought no letters. Nothing can be believed in this land unless it is in black and white, and but little even then; the most circumstantial details are often mere figments of the brain. The one half one hears may safely be called false, and the other half doubtful or not proven.

God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.

Art is a reflection of God's creativity, an evidence that we are made in the image of God.

The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself.

The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among the rubble and ruins.

Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.

On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It's in this sense that we must be holy.

We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God.

The followers of Jesus did not die for what they believed - they died for what they claim to have seen.

Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence pointing to God.

Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.

The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you're gone.