Quotes About Confirmation

Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.

Because people don't believe it unless it happens to them.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds—justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

The Church of England shut down that avenue of emancipation when it confirmed that baptism of a slave into the Christian faith did not require the emancipation of that slave, an understanding that Virginia codified in law. Christians could

We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.

Sometimes you don't something is true until you hear it for the first time.

Why does life need evidence of life?

The federal judiciary is unlike the other branches of government. And once confirmed, a federal judge serves for life. And there's no court above the Supreme Court.

Well, as my old mam used to say, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck." "Very wise

siso n. a solitary experience you wish you could have shared with someone else-having dinner in a romantic setting, reaching the summit after an arduous climb, having a run-in with a crazy stranger that nobody's going to believe-which makes you look around for confirmation that it even happened at all.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

I hope it will not shock experimental physicists too much if I say that we do not accept their observations unless they are confirmed by theory.

Our knowledge of human nature is for the most part empirical; and it would often be better, if, instead of endeavouring to say some new things ourselves, we were to confirm without more words the sayings of another.

Even after the president's testimony that the telegram was genuine, newspaper editors and some senators simply refused to believe it.

En realidad no hizo sino confirmar un dogma: la existencia del diablo fue establecida por el cuarto Concilio de Letrán. Hablo de 1215...

The first experiment already illustrates a truth of the theory, well confirmed by practice, what-ever can happen will happen if we make trials enough.

Just tell me she's alive.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.

When you get to the age of accountability you have to reaffirm your faith.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

I can confirm for you I'm not running for governor of Connecticut in the future.

It's been a grand, elevating, life-confirming experience these last two years.