Quotes about Skepticism
A skeptical world judges the truth of what we say by the proof of how we live. Today's activists may be the best evangelists.
— Philip Yancey
To gain the hearing of a post-Christian society already skeptical about religion will require careful strategy. We must, in Jesus' words, be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. I fear that our clumsy pronouncements, our name-calling, our stridency — ?in short, our lack of grace — ?has proved so damaging that society will no longer look to us for the guidance it needs.
— Philip Yancey
A faith based on miracles will quickly fade, dependent on the next miracle. Such an attitude cannot even be called faith.
— Dennis Prager
People always want to doubt you.
— Zendaya
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than the one who believes. You can be almost as stupid as a cabbage, as long as you doubt. The fashion of the age has identified mental sharpness with a pose, not with genuine intellectual method and character.
— Dallas Willard
He found himself praying for his brother-in-law, hoping he would soon see how much God loved him, knowing that God was well accustomed to dealing with skeptics and doubters.
— Lori Wick
The man with whom you are so impressed will beguile with that tongue of his twenty who do not know him.2 Do
— John Bunyan
a smart person believes only half of what he hears, but a really smart person knows which half to believe.
— John Maxwell
My friends, there are no friends.
— Coco Chanel
The harshest people I've met over the years have had two things in common: they don't fully trust anybody, and they view relationships as a means to an end.
— Donald Miller
The spirit of our day is a soft acceptance of everything—except deep conviction in anything.
— John Eldredge
The intellectual support for UNBELIEF is about as stable as the stock market.
— John Eldredge