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“Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting--it has been found wanting, and not tried.”

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Author:Os Guinness

“You can always make a loan at a bank if you can show sufficient evidence that you don't need it.”

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Author:Evan Esar

“There is nothing in the nature of a miracle that should render it incredible:;: its credibility depends upon the nature of the evidence by which it is supported. An event of extreme probability will not necessarily command our belief unless upon a sufficiency of proof; and so an event which we may regard as highly improbable may command our belief if it is sustained by sufficient evidence. So that the credibility or incredibility of an event does not rest upon the nature of the event itself, but depends upon the nature and sufficiency of the proof which sustains it.”

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Book:Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

Source: Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

“That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses, without their own consent, or that of their representives so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assembled, for the public good.”

“Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.”

Source: The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus

“To be alive is sufficient evidence that we are needed in the world. Otherwise we wouldn't be here.”

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Author:Margery Wilson

“[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's.”

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Author:Hugh Ross

“In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the facts of my narrative would prove of such a nature as to carry with them sufficient evidence of their own authenticity.”

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Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.”

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Author:Walter Kaufmann

“I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought.”

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Author:Stanley Hauerwas

“Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“Of course, the main reason is the change of law in the way Germany has brought Nazi war criminals to trial. The previous rules was that you'd have to have tangible evidence, and documentary evidence was not sufficient.”

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Author:Marvin Hier

“If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.”

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Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.”

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Author:John Lubbock

“We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.”

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Author:Sam Harris

“When talking about unicorns, minotaurs, or compassionate conservatives, one does not normally have to prove their non-existence; the mere lack of any evidence is sufficient reason not to believe in any of them.”

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Author:Peter Stone

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