Cherish Your Doubts
Robert T. Weston
Responsive Reading 413 from Hymns for the Celebration of Live - Beacon Press
- Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the handmaiden of truth.
- Doubt is the key to the door of knowledge; it is the servant of discovery.
- A belief which may not be questioned binds us to error,
- for there is incompleteness and imperfection in every belief.
- Doubt is the touchstone of truth; it is an acid which eats away the false.
- Let no man fear for the truth, that doubt may consume it;
- for doubt is a testing of belief.
- The truth stands boldly and unafraid; it is not shaken by the testing;
- For truth, if it be truth, arises from each testing stronger, more secure.
- He that would silence doubt is filled with fear;
- the house of his spirit is built on shifting sands.
- But he that fears no doubt, and knows its use, is founded on a rock.
- He shall walk in the light of growing knowledge;
- the work of his hands shall endure.
- Therefore let us not fear doubt, but let us rejoice in its help:
- It is to the wise as a staff to the blind; doubt is the handmaiden of truth.
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