Credible – Page 7

The redemptive power of

The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it. Rebecca West

On the contrary, there is a considerable body of evidence that these fossil traces, known as ‘dino-fuzz’, have nothing to do with bird feathers… I, and many others, do not find any credible evidence that those structures represent protofeathers. Alan Feduccia

There is a danger

There is a danger when we give young people only a catalog of dos and don’ts. In these young minds, the gospel is not intellectually credible. Ravi Zacharias

I find it more

I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I mean,you will have

I mean,you will have an Afghan government. There are two roads here. One is obviously a run-off election or a negotiated settlement. But what’s most important about that process is that there’s a credibility and a legitimacy to the government at the end of that process. So which road they choose, that’s up to them. … Read more

Sensible Catholics have for

Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is the business of all religious doctrines to keep their votaries in a state of intellectual infancy (how else do they keep absurdities seeming credible?), insufficient numbers of Catholics have been able to be sensible.
A.C. Grayling

I believe that the

I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
Galileo Galilei

I am inclined to

I am inclined to think that the authority of Holy Scripture is intended to convince men of those truths which are necessary for their salvation, which, being far above man’s understanding, can not be made credible by any learning, or any other means than revelation by the Holy Spirit.
Galileo Galilei