Joey Skaggs Quotes

I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything.

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

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.

When a man is required to believe certain doctrines, he is not free to think. A creed is to keep the mind from inquiry. Questions lead to doubt, and doubt is the death of faith.

Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

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

I think that there's a strain in journalism that believes that anyone who surrenders him- or herself to faith and to belief necessarily checks reason and rationality at the door.

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.

I don't need faith.

I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

We cannot infer that because sciences of things divine and human are full of controversies and quarrels, therefore their whole subject-matter is uncertain ; for there have been many persons so enamoured of contradiction, as to turn into ridicule geometrical axioms.

We all have fundamental beliefs of one sort or another, and it is very threatening if somebody is saying they're wrong.

I just believe what I believe.

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.