“The truth is always the strongest argument.”
Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian
Fragment 737.
Phædra
“The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.”
The Ministry of Healing, p. 470
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“If you would be loved, be lovable”
Ut ameris, amabilis esto.
Ovid book Ars amatoria
Variant translation: To be loved, be lovable.
Book II, line 107
Compare: Si vis amari, ama. ("If you wish to be loved, love"), attributed to Hecato by Seneca the Younger in Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Epistle IX
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
Variant: If you want to be loved, be lovable.
“The strongest argument proves nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience.”
[H]aec vocatur scientia experimentalis, quae negligit argumenta, quoniam non certificant, quantumcunque sint fortia, nisi simul adsit experientia conclusionis. Et ideo haec docet experiri conclusiones nobiles omnium scientiarum, quae in aliis scientiis aut probantur per argumenta, aut investigantur per experientias naturales et imperfectas...
Roger Bacon book Opus Tertium
OQHI, 43 http://www.mlat.uzh.ch/MLS/text.php?tabelle=Rogerus_Baco_cps4&rumpfid=Rogerus_Baco_cps4,%20Opus%20tertium,%20%2013&level=3&corpus=4&lang=0&current_title=Opus%20tertium&links=&inframe=1&hide_apparatus= as cited in: James J. Walsch (1911) """"Science at the Medieval Universities"""" in: Popular Science, May 1911, p. 449 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Popular_Science_Monthly_Volume_78.djvu/459 <br class="br">Opus Tertium, c. 1267 <br class="br">Context: The strongest argument proves nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences, and the goal of all speculation.
“In loving me, you made me lovable.”
Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine
Jacques Ellul (1912–1994) French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist
Source: The Subversion of Christianity (1984), pp. 33-34
“Our Republic is itself a strong argument in favor of composite nationality.”
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
It is no disparagement to the Americans of English descent to affirm that much of the wealth, leisure, culture, refinement and civilization of the country are due to the arm of the negro and the muscle of the Irishman. Without these, and the wealth created by their sturdy toil, English civilization had still lingered this side of the Alleghanies, and the wolf still be howling on their summits. To no class of our population are we more indebted for valuable qualities of head, heart, and hand, than to the German. Say what we will of their lager, their smoke, and their metaphysics, they have brought to us a fresh, vigorous and child-like nature; a boundless facility in the acquisition of knowledge; a subtle and far-reaching intellect, and a fearless love of truth. Though remarkable for patient and laborious thought, the true German is a joyous child of freedom, fond of manly sports, a lover of music, and a happy man generally. Though he never forgets that he is a German, he never fails to remember that he is an American.
1860s, Our Composite Nationality (1869)
William Lane Craig (1949) American Christian apologist and evangelist
Source: Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics (1994), p. 36.
“Love is the strongest force in the world.”
Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer
Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom