Quotes about Skeptic
“If You are the Christ, tell us.” Jesus answered, “If I tell you, you will not believe.
- Luke 22:67
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!
- Peter Lillback
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our politics, economics, advertising, and religions (New Age and Old) are awash in credulity. Those who have something to sell, those who wish to influence public opinion, those in power, a skeptic might suggest, have a vested interest in discouraging skepticism
- Carl Sagan
All science asks is to employ the same levels of skepticism we use in buying a used car or in judging the quality of analgesics or beer from their television commercials.
- Carl Sagan
in this matter. Natural as it is to be somewhat incredulous concerning the populousness
- Herman Melville
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed.
- Charles Swindoll
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.
- Frederick Buechner
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations
- Graham Greene
I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.
- Robert Brault
I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!
- Lewis Carroll