Proof Texting Quotes

“If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to liberate and honor women, you will find them.”
― Rachel Held Evans, A Year of Biblical Womanhood

“A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.”
― Tom Carson

“Would you enthusiastically recommend that a friend purchase something you'd never tested yourself? Probably not. But you may be unwittingly doing this with information every day.”
― Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

“Like other people, anthropologists may see only what they want to see, even when what they want to see is nothing.”
― J. Budziszewski, What We Can't Not Know: A Guide