Middle ground Quote by Roderick Graham

Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become…

— Bill Moyers

“Ardent believers hide within the safety of their absolutes, for much more courage is needed to abandon their cozy security for the questioning of…

— Galen Watson

“I was always a doubter when it came to religion. How irrational of me, then, to love a zealot. But then, both love and…

— Octavia E. Butler

“Zealots are one-trick ponies. They love nothing so much as their own cause. Don’t get in their way without expecting to be hurt.”

— Patricia Briggs

“And yet, the fact that we are no longer killing people for heresy in the West suggests that bad ideas, however sacred, cannot survive…

— Sam Harris

“It is generally the trustful and optimistic people who can afford to retreat. The loveless and faithless ones are compelled by their pessimism to…

— T.H. White

“We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Zealots are totally incapable of any emotion other than rage. It is an unalterable law that people who claim to care about the human…

— Quentin Crisp

“Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality…through faith.”

— Terry Goodkind

“We are more politically fanatical than ever before, more religiously zealous, more rigid in our thinking, less capable of empathy. We are completely avoiding…

— Nathan Hill

“Here it is: agonizing over the opinions of others, fretting over the state of the world, and hiding your faith will keep you trapped…

— Carey Scott

“Faith in the power of reason is the central pillar of the modern worldview.”

— Heath White