Quotes About Evidence

It would take, he calculated, more than an hour. First a cream-filled swan and a coffee at Tonolo, then the walk to Campo San Barnaba and the store that sold the good cheese and the bread from Puglia. He had fled his office in search of peace and quiet, seeking some evidence that sanity still existed in a world of violence and crime, and his wife suggested they spend an hour eating pastry and buying a loaf of bread. He leaped at the chance.

This is the way to enjoy much inward comfort in this world, to have bright assurance in death, to leave broad evidences behind us. and at last to receive a great crown.

Growth in grace is the best evidence of spiritual health and prosperity. In a child or a flower or a tree, we are all aware that when there is no growth, there is something wrong. Healthy life in an animal or plant will always show itself by progress and increase. It is the same with our souls. If they are progressing and doing well, they will grow.

Sanctification is the only certain evidence of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, which is essential to salvation.

La gracia es luz, y la luz siempre se puede ver. La gracia es sal, y la sal siempre se puede saborear. Decir que el Espíritu mora en uno pero no se demuestra por frutos visibles y por una gracia que los demás ni pueden ver, es muy sospechoso. Créeme cuando te digo que eres un alma muerta si no tienes más prueba de tu vida espiritual que el haber sido bautizado.

Una evidencia es que vivía entre hombres impíos "viendo y oyendo los hechos inicuos de ellos" y la maldad a su alrededor (2 P. 2:8) y, aun así, él mismo no era impío.

Without some evidence that our faith in Christ was real and genuine, we shall only rise again to be condemned. I can find no evidence that will be admitted In that day, except sanctification. The question will not be how we talked and what we professed, but how we lived and what we did.

while few would actually put it in these terms, faith is now understood as a blind act of will, a decision to believe something that is either independent of reason or that is a simple choice to believe while ignoring the paltry lack of evidence for what is believed. By contrast with this modern misunderstanding, biblically, faith is a power or skill to act in accordance with the nature of the kingdom of God, a trust in what we have reason to believe is true.

Understood in this way, we see that faith is built on reason.

Experience is more basic than ultimate worldview presuppositions and, in fact, the evidence of experience provides data for evaluating rival worldviews or interpretations of some event.

For many secularists, knowledge is obtained solely by means of the senses and science. Something is true and reasonable to believe to the degree that it can be tested by the five senses — it can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or felt. Seeing is believing. Likewise, knowledge is identical to scientific knowledge. If you can prove something scientifically, then it is culturally permissible or even obligatory to believe it.

Despite its claim to a new view among the psychological sciences, affective neuroscience is deeply rooted within physiological psychology, behavioral biology, and the modernized label for all of these disciplines: behavioral neuroscience. The present coverage will rely heavily on data collected by individuals in these fields, but it will put a new twist on the evidence. It reinterprets many of the brain-behavior findings to try to account for the central neuropsychic states of organisms.

Tõestuse puudumine ei ole puudumise tõestus.

To the best of our knowledge, there's no evidence that GMOs (genetically modified organisms that have been designed or manipulated to produce certain characteristics) can affect your child's microbiome in any way.

thought I might have to prove later that she was my kill and not somebody else's, so I grabbed two fourteen-inch white plastic ties from the truck and cinched them around her neck for ID.

Every society produces its own cultural conceits, a set of lies and delusions about itself that thrive in the face of all contrary evidence.

Knowledge requires that what we believe is true and that we can justify our belief that it is true. In this way, the pursuit of knowledge resembles the work of police detectives: it's not enough to get the right man, you also must have the evidence.

Evan was more certain than ever that Scott had stolen money from him. It

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

Dr Haikal writes: "There is no denying the fact that at the time of the death of each of her children Khadijah approached the idols and asked as to why the gods were not pleased to bless her".101 The above statement is not supported even by the most insignificant historical evidence and is nothing more than a mere guess. Its purpose is to give the impression that as, during her time, all were idolaters, Khadijah too was, certainly, like them.

Only facts will help you escape -- not hopes, fears or wishes.

Tay knew that if he gave the Hong Kong police what he had discovered, they wouldn't have been able to touch Albert Chan. He doubted they would have even tried.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

A fact is like a sack -- it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.