Quotes About Presumptions

We rarely make mistakes in analysis. We usually make them in our assumptions.

La gente en general maneja las situaciones por medio de suposiciones.

We followed the Three Steps to Hearing God that I had first learned from Joy Dawson in New Zealand. First, we took Christ's authority to silence the enemy. Second, we asked the Lord to clear from our minds any presumptions and preconceived ideas. Third, we waited…believing He would speak in the way and in the time that He chose.

Through the lens of his socialism, Haldane saw—and was offended by—the sociopolitical presumptions, so many of them increasingly contrary to his own, hidden in mainline doctrine. Little was yet known about human heredity and, as Haldane put it, "many of the deeds done in America in the name of eugenics are about as much justified by science as were the proceedings of the inquisition by the gospels."54

The law of intended consequences," she said. "That's what I call it anyway. When you look for what you expect to find, invariably you'll find it.

We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.