Quotes about Evidence
For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.
— JC Ryle
The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.
— Joseph Addison
Consider another core teaching of Jesus. It was he who said that all those who followed him would be known by their radical ability to show kindness to those who were cruel to them2 and to love without holding record of wrong. In fact he said that this kind of love would be the primary evidence of those who know and follow him.3
— Ted Dekker
Jesus provided reasons to believe through many different means, the most dramatic of which were miracles done in public as authentication.
— Francis J. Beckwith
Atheists must make a positive case that only material things exist. That's why instead of debating "Does God exist?" I prefer to debate the question "What better explains reality: atheism or theism?
— Frank Turek
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is never too late to give up your prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.
— Dennis Prager
By the fruits which it bears is the tree known.
— Jan Hus
I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life - in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God.
— Frank Sinatra
It hardly matters how the body of Jesus came to be missing because in the last analysis what convinced the people that he had risen from the dead was not the absence of his corpse but his living presence. And so it has been ever since.
— Frederick Buechner