Quotes about Skepticism

“Where is the promise of His coming?” they will ask. “Ever since our fathers fell asleep, everything continues as it has from the beginning of creation.”

when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”

Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

My friends, there are no friends.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

Trust, but verify.

Behind every great idea is someone saying "It won't work"

I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.

Skeptics today often claim that George Washington was not a real Christian, but in our view, the burden of proof is on them to explain why he was consistently in church throughout his life, why the churches he was part of were entirely orthodox in terms of the Trinity and the doctrine of Christ, and why he attended churches where the Bible was regularly preached on Sunday.

Indeed, given the facts, the burden of proof is not to prove that Washington was a Christian; the burden of proof is to prove that he was a skeptic who nevertheless sought to act like a Christian believer!

The skeptics who argue for Washington the Deist must explain his lifelong and heartfelt commitment to Christian missionary work.