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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith. -- Jon Meacham
My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith. -- Elie Wiesel
Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well. -- John Sununu
Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church. -- Alice McDermott
Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith - and that nothing has to be proven. -- Joe Rogan
People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic. -- Brian Reynolds Myers
I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I have absolute faith that I do not know, cannot know, am only human, am an infinitesimal creature packed onto a cramped planet crowded with seven billion bodies, and as many yearning hearts, and as many questioning minds. -- Marya Hornbacher
Faith never stays put. It's always challenging always questioning. That's what makes it real. -- Patrick Carman
If thinking minds, questioning minds, doubting minds, are talking about faith, their whole life will become fake. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Pope is questioning my faith. I was very surprised to see it. But I am a Christian, and I'm proud of it. -- Donald Trump
Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith. -- Josiah Royce
In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it. -- Wendy Kaminer
Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship. -- Barack Obama

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