Quotes About Doubt

National Association of Evangelicals)

Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.

When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out.

Because most Christians want it both ways. They want to be able to proudly declare they are believers in the Bible and yet simply ignore those parts they find too difficult or too inconvenient to believe.

Widespread acceptance of an idea is not proof if its validity. -Robert Langdon

RELIGION: BECAUSE THINKING IS HARD.

Widespread acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.

I want to believe, he heard himself say. Victoria's reply carried no judgement or challenge. So why don't you? He chuckled. Well, it's not that easy. Having faith requires leaps of faith, cerebral acceptance of miracles, immaculate conceptions an divine interventions

Widespread acceptance of a fact is not a proof of its validity.

rational mind had always justified these accounts as part of the myth. They were simply the result of man's greatest weakness – his need for proof. Miracles were nothing but stories we all clung to because we wished they were true. And

Fossils were placed there by God to test our faith. - U.S. congressman Paul Broun

Your heart yearns to believe . . . but your intellect refuses to permit it.

I know you want to run, but I'm not going to let you. Sooner or later you need to start trusting someone.

Worshipping God is like mining for fossil fuels," someone argued. "Plenty of smart people know it is shortsighted, and yet they have too much invested to stop!

What if God was wrong?

your skepticism is one of your greatest strengths as an academic. It is also your greatest weakness. I know you well enough to know you're not a man I can ask to believe . . . only to trust.

Silas knew the stakes were incalculable, and yet what the Teacher was now commanding seemed impossible.

Something was very, very wrong.

Spiritual inquiry has always been the realm of religion, which encourages us to have a blind faith in its teachings, even when they make little logical sense. - Edmond Kirsch

The term 'atheist,' " Kirsch continued, "should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a 'nonastrologer' or a 'nonalchemist.' We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive, or for people who doubt that aliens traverse the galaxy only to molest cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.

El culto a Dios es como la extracción de combustibles fósiles -sostuvo uno de ellos-. Es una actividad de mentes cerradas y sin sentido, pero mucha gente inteligente la sigue practicando, porque ha invertido en ella demasiados recursos

The day science substantiates God in a lab is the day people stop needing faith!

For the human brain," Edmond explained, "any answer is better than no answer.

Have we become so spiritually bankrupt that we would rather believe in mathematical impossibility than in a power greater than us?