Quotes about Skepticism

The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

When you don't trust people all of the sudden you stop trusting anything.

I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.

He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.

In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.

T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.

They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

No," Daito said. "We're not. You're all strangers to us. For all we know, any one of you could be a Sixer spy.

There is no literature in all the world that is more true to life and more honest than Psalms, for here we have warts-and-all religion. Every skeptical thought, every disappointing venture, every pain, every despair that we can face is lived through and integrated into a personal, saving relationship with God—a relationship that also has in it acts of praise, blessing, peace, security, trust and love.

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.