“The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
“The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
“Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.”
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
Fe que no duda es fe muerta.
La Agonía del Cristianismo (The Agony of Christianity) (1931)
“Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.”
John Ralston Saul The Doubter's Companion
"Faith"
The Doubter's Companion (1994)
“Fear is the opposite of faith.”
Boyd K. Packer (1924–2015) American Mormon leader
Do Not Fear http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2004/04/do-not-fear Boyd K. Packer, April 2004
“Why, the very element of poetry is faith—faith in the beautiful, the divine, and the true.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Monthly Magazine
Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) English theologian
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.227 [ellipsis added]
“Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.”
Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-American theologian and philosopher
“Life is doubt,
And faith without doubt is nothing but death.”
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher