Quotes about Proof

When an engineer has built a bridge, the fact that a cat can pass over the bridge is no proof that the bridge is good. A train must pass over it to prove its strength. The fact that you can be an atheist when everything goes well does not prove the truth of atheism. It does not hold up in moments of great crisis." I

The intellect has a way of building a fence around the heart, cutting us off from what we know to be true in a way that is hard to prove according to the categories in which proof matters.

If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that's a holy life.

The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.

Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by beginning with the assumption that we should keep or spend the money God entrusts to us. Giving should be the default choice. Unless there is a compelling reason to spend it or keep it, we should give it.

Even the once-doubting Sir Lionel Luckhoo, identified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most successful attorney in the world, was forced to conclude after an exhaustive analysis of the evidence, "I say unequivocally that the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ is so overwhelming that it compels acceptance by proof which leaves absolutely no room for doubt.

Everything He said and did sustains that claim, and contrarily, nothing He said or did challenges that claim.

My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

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.