Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way

The theology of doubt is the underlying theology of Unitarian Universalism…it’s a theology which keeps us from self-righteousness, but not action. So let’s cherish our doubts. They not only lead to larger truth, but they make us wise, keep us humble, and allow us to live together in love.

But winnow my heart, O God; torture my mind
With doubt. Let me feel the clean gales of the open sea,
Until Thy creative life is my life and my joy;
One with the miracle of Spring and the blowing grain,
The yearning of my fellowmen and the endless reach of the stars.

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way

The only real corrective for passive disbelief is passionate doubt.

Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the attendant 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 one fear for the truth, that doubt may consume it; for doubt is the testing of belief. The truth stands boldly and unafraid; it is not shaken by the testing.