Burden Quote by Simon Greenleaf

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

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

Our religion, then, rests on the credit due to these witnesses.

— 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…

— Simon Greenleaf

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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