Quotes about Demonstration
Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.
- Aristotle
When Jesus performed miracles, he wasn't demonstrating what God can do, but what God can do through a man.
- Bill Johnson
Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown.
- Paulo Coelho
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
- Karl Barth
Who is the God that Christians worship? He is the God who loves and forgives. Surely Jesus demonstrated that truth on the cross. But how do we demonstrate this fact in our behavior? Our lives should be a living demonstration that we know a God who forgives.
- Brother Andrew
Lord, help us stand up both to the demons that hide behind ungodly laws, and the false religion that props up injustice. Make us into a people who shine out your love so that the world might know another way is possible. Amen.
- Shane Claiborne
Each act of obedience by the Christian is a modest proof, unequivocal for all its imperfection, of the reality of what he attests.
- Eugene Peterson
We live in a pragmatic age and are reluctant to do anything if its practical usefulness cannot be demonstrated.
- Eugene Peterson
Jesus gave people the right to disbelieve it all if there was no demonstration of power upon His ministry. I hunger for the day when the Church will make the same statement to the world. If we're not doing the miracles that Jesus did, you don't have to believe us.
- Bill Johnson
The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it
- DL Moody
Perhaps he singles out one person to show the others what he can do.
- Max Lucado
Because showing requires going. It assumes presence. Accompaniment. I can send you somewhere and not go with you, but how can I show you something without being present?
- Beth Moore