#proof

The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#beliefs #christianity #christians #evidence #him

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. ↗

— George Eliot

#behind #best #failure #fear #i

It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proof of citizenship and if the police officer had reasonable suspicion, he would ask and verify your citizenship. I mean, that's the way that it is. That's what the federal law says. And that's what the law in Arizona says. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#ask #citizenship #federal #federal law #had

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. ↗

— Giordano Bruno

#because #believed #change #does #low

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#i do #life #my life #need #proof

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective. ↗

— John Clayton

#god #logical #offer #perspective #practical

Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#attention #away #book #come #last

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? ↗

— William Cowper

#applause #charms #heart #man #popular

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#finger #i #i remember #kidnapped #more

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.' ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#back #burden #challenger #elsewhere #inverted