Best evidence & faith Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes.”

“In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.”

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Book:Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown

Source: Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown

“Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.”

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Book:Italian Days

Source: Italian Days

“I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith.”

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Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.”

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Author:John Calvin

“In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason.”

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Book:An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”

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Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.”

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Author:Michael Shermer

“I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.”

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Book:Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.”

“Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.”

Source: The Knowledge of the Holy

“You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe”

“Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.”

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Book:A Pilgrimage of Ideas: Or, The Re-education of Sherwood Eddy

Source: A Pilgrimage of Ideas: Or, The Re-education of Sherwood Eddy

“Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.”

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Author:Archibald Alexander Hodge

“It was the evidence from science and history that prompted me to abandon my atheism and become a Christian.”

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Author:Lee Strobel

“Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its non-mystical methods; above all-which perhaps most explains the expert's sovereignty-of external verities; of traffic-cop morality and rabbit-test truth.”

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Author:Louis Kronenberger

“If you would have a clear evidence that little love, that little faith, that little zeal, you have is true? Then live up to that love, live up to that faith, live up to that zeal that you have; and this will be evidence beyond all contradiction.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed

Source: The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed

“In every seed to breathe a flower, In every drop of dew To reverence a cloister star Within the distant blue; To wait the promise of the how, Despite the cloud between, Is Faith-the fervid evidence Of loneliness unseen.”

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Author:John B. Tabb

“What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.”

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Author:Peter Singer

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