#proof

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#argument #because #bible #cannot #does

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#faith #former #gift #god #human

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#achievement #integrity #life #loyalty #mindless

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#how #i #knew #proof #religion

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. ↗

— Eddie Rickenbacker

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#being #difficult #human #human being #last

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. ↗

— Paul Valery

#capital #discovery #folly #inborn #metaphor

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

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