Quotes about Skepticism

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

I never took it for granted that they believed any of even the most basic affirmations of the Christian faith concerning such matters as God and Jesus, sin and salvation, but always tried to speak to their skepticism and to honor their doubts. I made a point of never urging on them anything I did not believe myself. I was candid about what, like them, I was puzzled by and uncertain of. I tried to be myself. I tried to be honest.

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

The latter stage is apt to end in cynicism as we wonder what the one who praises really wants.

The latter stage is apt to end in cynicism as we wonder what the one who praises really wants.

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.

Too good to be true, I will think. Too good for this earth. Good, be thou my evil.

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Indeed, the dirty secret of Christian apologetics is this: there is no human argument that is guaranteed to overcome unbelief.

There is value, however, in skepticism of a less sweeping sort. That is to say that in general it is good to seek evidence when we are asked to change our beliefs in important ways.