Quotes about Evidence

It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.

Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging to John the Baptist, there is always excitement and distrust, faith and doubt.

The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.

The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

There is no calling of God to man on earth but what brings with it the evidence of its authenticity.

[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by their minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men.

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

The origin of the Christian faith is therefore inexplicable unless Jesus really rose from the dead.

We have seen that multiple lines of historical evidence indicate that Jesus' tomb was found empty on Sunday morning by a group of his women followers. Furthermore, no convincing natural explanation is available to account for this fact. This alone might prompt us to believe that the resurrection of Jesus is the best explanation.

Thus, although arguments and evidence may be used to support the believer's faith, they are never properly the basis of that faith.