"Our religion, then, rests on the credit due to these witnesses."
― Simon Greenleaf
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Religion
More From Simon Greenleaf
- "In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind freed, as far as possible, from existing prejudice, and open to conviction."
- "The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written; some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98; but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others."
- "In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science."
More In Religion
- "Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other."― Thomas Jefferson
- "A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one’s religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification."― David Herbert Lawrence
- "Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn’t manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared."― Jeane Kirkpatrick