Unquestioning Faith Quotes

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I Agree'.

The fanatical Communist refuses to believe any unfavorable report or evidence about Russia, nor will he be disillusioned by seeing with his own eyes the cruel misery inside the Soviet promised land. It is the true believer's ability to "shut his eyes and stop his ears" to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy. He cannot be frightened by danger, nor disheartened by obstacles, nor baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence.

I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.

No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth".

We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

To arrive at the truth in all things, we ought always to be ready to believe that what seems to us white is black if the hierarchical Church so defines it.

It is in the uncomprisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma that the danger lies.

The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind

I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything. When people have real faith in something, it's fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.

I always favor the hero and heroine from whichever book I've completed most recently. Yes, I'm faithless and fickle!

Whoever wishes to be a Christian, let him pluck out the eyes of his reason.

Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.

The most innocent heart is generally the most credulous.

No matter what the belief, if it had modestly said, 'This is our best thought, go on, think farther!' then we could have smoothly outgrown our early errors and long since have developed a religion such as would have kept pace with an advancing world. But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.

Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.

I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.