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Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.
- Abraham Lincoln
Con: Skeptic
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He who created us without our help with not save use without our consent.
- Augustine of Hippo -
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A complete atheist stands on the next-to-last upper step to the most complete faith (he may or may not take that step), while the indifferent one has no faith, apart from a bad fear.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
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Doubt isnt the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
- Paul Tillich (PhD) -
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
- Frederick Buechner -
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
- Blaise Pascal -
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
- Yann Martel -
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Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.
- Soren Kierkegaard -
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If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt.
- Yann Martel -
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Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.
- Miguel de Unamuno -
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Nothing is certain except death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin -
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King (Nobel Prize, PhD) -
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It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
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skepticism can never provide firm ground under a mans feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Nobel Prize) -
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Doubts can make you a philosopher, but only faith can make you an apostle.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -
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Faith is the highest passion in a man.
- Soren Kierkegaard -
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wild -
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Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
- Voltaire -
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For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.
- St. Thomas Aquinas -
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel (Nobel Prize) -
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Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Cynicism is a self imposed blindness.
- Stephen Colbert -
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Skepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would com to a standstill.
- George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) -
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To give truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation.
- George MacDonald -
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Professional Skeptic: One who constantly debates the factors involved but never comes to a personal conclusion. Like a painter who evaluates the chemistry of his paint and canvas, but never endeavors to commit to creating a painting.
- Chris D. Cisions -
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Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
- Albert Einstein (Nobel, PhD) -
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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Faith is nobler than the power of doubt.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe -
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The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
- William Jennings Bryan -
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Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.
- Peggy Noonan -
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When relationships fail it is usually because someone chooses not to show up for the battle.
- Shannon L. Alder -
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I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon ones thoughts.
- Elisabeth Elliot -
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Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.
- Rollo May -
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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didnt rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said?
- Timothy Keller (PhD) -
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For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
- John Calvin -
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Science says the first word on everything and the last word on nothing.
- Victor Hugo -
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Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy.
- Joseph Conrad
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