Quotes about Validity

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

Pure truth is possible, but pure falsehood is not.

The doctrine of Satan is that all religions are equally valid, that all paths lead to God, that God is impersonal, unknowable, and it is therefore irrelevant to Him what we call Him or how we worship Him. If Allah and God are one and the same, then wouldn't the worship of the Hindu chief gods, Vishnu and Shiva, also be the worship of Allah and God, only by a different name? Pretty soon, everybody is God... Which is the same as saying that nobody is.

The first step in helping a suffering person (or in accepting our own pain) is to acknowledge that pain is valid, and worthy of a sympathetic response.

Still, he never felt that the sermons he wrote at the cottage were good. By the time he got back to Washington to preach them, they no longer excited him. They seemed cold, lifeless. This was probably because Peter's best sermons rose out of the soil of emotion in his own heart. That emotion had to be a present, valid reality. He could not conjure it up.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.

The Gospel can stand up to scrutiny.

self-defeating statement is one that fails to meet its own standard.

It was as true… as turnips is. It was as true… as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

Every testimony is valid because there is someone out there a lot like you.

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

That a drug can restructure the world into something like an objective reality is a claim with as little validity as the objective reality itself. I think what I said at the time was that I had no more reason to place my confidence in a drugged state of mind than in a sober one.