
Source: Thomas Paine From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'
ABC's This Week With George Stephanopoulos (15 August 2004)
2004
Source: Thomas Paine From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'
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.”
Ch 21
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Lux
[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 305]
“I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.”
“Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.”
Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
Epigrams
p 13
Shizuka-na seikatsu (A Quiet Life) (1990)
Context: To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy. In this sense, he did make a social blunder, for which I think he well deserved some minor castigation.