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Why then did Abraham do it ? For God's sake, and (in complete identity with this) for his own sake. He did it for God's sake because God required this proof of his faith ; for his own sake he did it in order that he might furnish the proof.
— Soren Kierkegaard
what was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.
— Alice Hoffman
Love wasn't rational; there was no proof that it even existed outside of people's imaginings.
— Alice Hoffman
This is an evil generation: they seek a sign.
— Anonymous
Statistics can be made to prove anything - even the truth.
— Anonymous
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved. Love is people, is a person. A friend of ours, Hugh Bishop of Mirfield, says in one of his books: Love is not an emotion. It is a policy. Those words have often helped me when all my feelings were unlovely.
— Madeleine L'Engle
As a child has to prove a sum to be correct, so the proof that we have prayed correctly is the answer. If we ask and don't receive, it is because we have not learned to pray correctly. Let every learner in the school of Christ therefore take the Master's Word in all simplicity: Every one that asks receives.
— Andrew Murray
humility towards men will be the only sufficient proof that our humility before God is real; that humility has taken up its abode in us; and become our very nature; that we actually, like Christ, have made ourselves of no reputation.
— Andrew Murray
APODICTICAL  (APODI'CTICAL)   adj.[from    evident truth; demonstration.]Demonstrative; evident beyond contradiction. Holding an apodictical knowledge, and an assured knowledge of it; verily, to persuade their apprehensions otherwise, were to make Euclid believe, that there were more than one centre in
— Samuel Johnson
But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
— John Calvin
eLet this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture indeed is self-authenticated;16 hence, it is not right to subject it to proof and reasoning.
— John Calvin
By these words it is plain he does not make love the cause of forgiveness, but the proof of it.
— John Calvin