Quotes about Evidence
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
— John Adams
The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.
— Josh McDowell
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.
— John Foxe
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
— Karl Barth
One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.
— Stephen Hawking
But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life.
— Margaret Atwood
A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart.
— Charles Finney
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.
— John Piper
Indeed, the dirty secret of Christian apologetics is this: there is no human argument that is guaranteed to overcome unbelief.
— John Frame
There is value, however, in skepticism of a less sweeping sort. That is to say that in general it is good to seek evidence when we are asked to change our beliefs in important ways.
— John Frame
We have quoted freely from the Scriptures and have sought to furnish proof-texts for every statement we have advanced.
— AW Pink