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John Ortberg

Faith and Doubt

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  • Thomas Digelцитирует8 лет назад
    Life is a great surprise,” Vladimir Nabokov wrote, “I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.”9
  • Thomas Digelцитирует8 лет назад
    More than any time in human history, humankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
  • Thomas Digelцитирует8 лет назад
    To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportatio
  • Thomas Digelцитирует8 лет назад
    Doubt is to belief what darkness is to light, what sickness is to health. It is an absence. Sickness may be the absence of health, but health is more than the absence of sickness. So it is with doubt and faith. Doubt is a good servant but a poor master.
  • Thomas Digelцитирует8 лет назад
    If I refuse to sing a word or play a note until I'm certain of perfection, there will never be music.”
  • Thomas Digelцитирует8 лет назад
    But I need to decide how I will live on this side of the door.
  • Thomas Digelцитирует8 лет назад
    There is one road to certainty—through a door marked “death.”
  • Thomas Digelцитирует8 лет назад
    the ironies of atheism is that if there is no such thing as life after death, atheists can never know for sure that they were right, and believers can never know for sure that they were wrong.
  • Thomas Digelцитирует8 лет назад
    We believe and we doubt. Believing and doubting share the same inevitability, but they are not equal. They cannot lay the same claim on our allegiance. They do not share the same power.
    If there are places beyond the cul-de-sac, doubt cannot take us there.
  • Thomas Digelцитирует8 лет назад
    My wound is an unanswered question. The wounds of all humanity are an unanswered question.
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