Nancy Pearcey Quotes

What do we believe? Why do we believe it?

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

I was raised with the notion that it was OK to ask questions, and it was OK to say, I'm not sure. I believe, but I'm not quite so certain about the resurrection.

What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know.

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.

Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a doubt, or raised a question, only to be told by their family, church, friends, or tribe: "We don't discuss those things here." I believe the discussion itself is divine. Abraham does his best to bargain with God, most of the book of Job consists of arguments by Job and his friends about the deepest questions of human suffering, God is practically on trial in the book of Lamentations, and Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question.

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

Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

I was 13 when I was started questioning and 16 when I stopped believing in God.

Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.

Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

If you call yourself a non-believer, you're referring to disbelief in something, and you're acknowledging that there is something to believe in or not.

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.

Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

I always was kind of on the edge of the church when I was fully in it, cos I was always asking the questions... And I could never believe blindly.

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

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

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.