Doubting Thomas Quotes

In the first gospel, Mark, the risen Christ appears physically to no one, but by the time we come to the last gospel, John, Thomas is invited to feel the nail prints in Christ's hands and feet and the spear wound in his side.

...Thomas did not believe the resurrection [John 20:25], and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I, and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas.

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

There will always be people who question your motives.

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

My father was an agnostic.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers.

I'm always coming up against scepticism in my life.

I am willing to believe, but I do not have the gift of faith. I'm skeptical.