Charles Spurgeon Quotes

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.

He that believes all misseth; he that believes nothing, hits not.

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

I do not believe in Belief.

Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.

I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for belief's sake. I mean there's only any point in believing something if it's true.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.

I don't travel in circles where people say, 'I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith.' That's just a long-winded religious way to say 'Shut up.'

Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion. ... the converse was true also - faith is to a liberal education as critical thinking is to religion, irrelevant and even damaging.

Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.

Do you know...what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our pious grandmothers told us.

I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you believe.

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.

If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it.

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.