“Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.”
“Some laymen feel that, out of loyalty, they ought to cling to ancient ways of expressing the Christian faith and that to doubt is to sin. But doubt is not the enemy of faith. It is the growing edge of faith...”
Source: The Christian Agnostic (1965), p.227 [ellipsis added]
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