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. — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
In examining the evidence of the Christian religion, it is essential to the discovery of truth that we bring to the investigation a mind… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
The proof that God has revealed himself to man by special and express communications, and that Christianity constitutes that revelation, is no part of… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit,… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
The religion of Jesus Christ aims at nothing less than the utter overthrow of all other systems of religion in the world; denouncing them… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Either the men of Galilee were men of superlative wisdom, and extensive knowledge and experience, and of deeper skill in the arts of deception… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
The foundation of our belief is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
By competent evidence, is meant such as the nature of the thing to be proved requires; and by satisfactory evidence, is meant that amount… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
