Quotes about Skepticism
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
For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
- CS Lewis
FAITH receives more than it asks. DOUBT loses more than it disbelieved.
- Beth Moore
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Moreover, I discovered that day that grown-ups could lie just as well as I, and it seemed to me that I could no longer feel quite safe with them.
- Marcel Pagnol
Theologian Lesslie Newbigin writes that we live in an age that favors doubt over faith.4 We often speak of "blind faith" and "honest doubt.
- John Ortberg
It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
- Gloria Steinem
You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.
- Thomas Merton