Propounder Of Evidence Quotes & Sayings

Hayseeds we might be, but we meant to be informed hayseeds. — Richard Peck

We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said ... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right. — Roger Mahony

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one. — Chuck Norris

It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg. — Taylor Swift

I want to record the name of Chen Guangbiao in Chinese history. — Chen Guangbiao

Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs. — Alex Berenson

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history. — A.J.P. Taylor

Dino-DNA injected into frog eggs would likely yield something different from dino-DNA in dinosaur eggs-because the micro-environment of the egg would inevitably influence which genetic cascades were expressed. (Fans of the environment shouldn't get too comfortable, either-implanting a frog's DNA into a dinosaur egg would be even less likely to yield a dinosaur.) Because the recipes that build the mind and brain are always sensitive to the environment, there is no guarantee that those recipes will converge on any particular outcome, and there will never be an easy answer to our questions about nature and nurture. — Gary F. Marcus

In my old easy-going theism, I had regarded Christianity as a sort of fairy tale; and I had neither accepted nor rejected Jesus, since I had never, in fact, encountered him. Now I had. The position was not, as I had been comfortably thinking all these months, merely a question of whether I was to accept the Messiah or not. It was a question of whether I was to accept Him
or reject>. My God! There was a gap behind me too. Perhaps the leap to acceptance was a horrifying gamble-but what of the leap to rejection? There might be no certainty that Christ was God-but, by God, there was no certainty that He was not. — Sheldon Vanauken

Whether you're talking about boners, infidelities, late rent, or the Democratic primary: a single plausible excuse will sound like a credible explanation while a basket full of excuses - even a basket stuffed with equally legitimate, plausible/probable excuses - will sound like a desperate/unbelievable lie. — Dan Savage

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss. — Alberto Giacometti

What had passed between Eleanor Harding and Mary Bold need not be told. It is indeed a matter of thankfulness that neither the historian nor the novelist hears all that is said by their heroes or heroines, or how would three volumes or twenty suffice! — Anthony Trollope

I really believe that what we finally want is to know God, as God has come to be known through Jesus. Knowledge is knowledge of the heart - the Spirit - I would say. It is the Spirit in us who reveals God. — Henri Nouwen

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original. — Louis Armstrong