Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presume…

- 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 upon lawyers w…

- 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 than a…

- 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 as inadequa…

- 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, without reserve or o…

- 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 having actuall…

- 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 fact, a…

- Simon Greenleaf

These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest; much less to treat them …

- 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 freed, as fa…

- Simon Greenleaf