8 Assent Quotes for You to Enjoy

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. Mahatma Gandhi

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In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. Stephen Jay Gould

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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent. Al Franken

Hope Democracy You Laughter Realize Assent

Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel. William Gurnall

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Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. William Ames

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Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win. Asa Gray

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If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true source - our living Savior. He is real. He is present. But all too often we reduce him to an abstraction, giving him intellectual assent, but not our hearts. Michael O'Brien

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