Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

Too much doubt is better than too much credulity.

True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It.

I do not believe in Belief.

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.

The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be... The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough.

Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing.

Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.

It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.

Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

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

Incredulity is not wisdom.

The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.

I don't discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in.

Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

If you haven't doubted, you probably haven't thought very hard about what you believe.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.

If you don't believe in a line, then you come off as the loser.