Quotes About Confirmation

If one discards the Bible as unreliable historically, then he or she must discard all the literature of antiquity. No other document has as much evidence to confirm its reliability.

it was reassuring to her to be ill, for then she had the confirmation that her body was indeed her own, that it had limits, that it was alive, and that she herself was a separate individual who was in no danger of losing her sense of subjective identity. While these were not the causes of her illnesses, they were, so to speak, secondary benefits.

And they need me," he said once. "They need someone to tell them what to think." "Don't be naive," Magdalena told him. "People already know what they think. People already have their prejudices well formed. They only want someone in authority to confirm their prejudices, even if its the mendacious authority of newspapers.

I have it on good authority that I was born in Utah.

I'll back up anything my dad says.

The Word does not change. The Dead Sea scrolls, archeology, modern science—they do not change the Bible; they confirm it.

Failure is when you give your enemies the confirmation, they were right all along to have you in their shit list

El fracaso es cuando les das la razón a tus enemigos al confirmarles que hacían bien en tenerte en la lista negra.

In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and talk and write, only in its favor. Indeed, when we have a snug, comfortable theory, to which we are much attached, they appear to us as a very mean set of facts that will not square with it.

As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew the world was still in motion, I knew I existed. Not a very consequential existence, but an existence nonetheless. It struck me as wanting that someone should confirm his own existence only by the hands of an electric wall clock. There had to be a more cognitive means of confirmation. But try as I might, nothing less facile came to mind.

It's a waste of time to think about things you can't know, and things you can't confirm even if you know them.

When tragedy strikes, or even when it looms, our families will have the opportunity to look into our hearts to see whether we know what we said we knew. Our children will watch, feel the Spirit confirm that we lived as we preached, remember that confirmation, and pass the story across the generations.

One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. Thus we managed to portray President Gerald Ford, a first-rate athlete, as a klutz.

The transcendent gift of the Holy Ghost, along with membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is bestowed by confirmation, by the laying on of hands by those having priesthood authority.

One question you ask as a writer or any kind of artist when you start making something is, 'Does this have reason to exist in the world?' And you're reassured when you get little confirmations that people are pleased it did exist - whether they buy a ticket, whether it gets good reviews, whether it transfers.

After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.

Propositional truths take on vitality and force when they are confirmed and illustrated in the living experiences of devout disciples of Christ.

Una vez más se confirmó el dicho de Goethe de que el entusiasmo no se adapta a un almacenaje prolongado.

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

What I tell you three times is true.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.