Quotes about Evidence
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
— William James
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
— Mark Twain
The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.
— Nicky Gumbel
Faith is not a leap in the dark. Faith is not a "hope so." Faith is substance and evidence - substance for a scientific mind, and evidence for a legal mind.
— J. Vernon McGee
The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two.
— Martin Luther
Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence.
— Lee Strobel
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for "false evidence appearing real.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.
— Oswald Chambers
For today, thanks to recently discovered documents, the evidence shows that in the early days of their accession to power, the Nazis in Germany set out to build a society in which there simply would be no room for Jews. Toward the end of their reign, their goal changed: they decided to leave behind a world in ruins in which Jews would seem never to have existed.
— Elie Wiesel
Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.
— Elisabeth Elliot
For the skeptic no proof is possible, and for the "believer" no proof is necessary.
— Alistair Begg