For the dispute of the Jew with the Christian is one thing, and his dispute with the sceptic is another, totally different.
This the Jew denies, but looks forward to the future fulfilment of the promises of his Bible, while the Sceptic denies that the Messiah has come, or ever will.
The Sceptic My Father Christmas passed away When I was barely seven.
Not unless the sceptic refused the elementary starting- ground from which you and I may reason; not if it be granted that man has a soul, which it is the object of this life to enrich and develop for another.
George-no, your illustration might be turned by a sceptic into an argument against you.
Now Bysset, who seems to have been somewhat of a sceptic in ordeals, had no objection to trust the issue to single combat, and challenged whomsoever would dare to stand forth against him.
After eighteen months' inquiry into the subject, however, he was, perhaps, more of a sceptic than before.
This, a sceptic would say, was natural enough under the circumstances.
Being a determined sceptic in the matter of prospectuses, I determined to go and see for myself the working of this scheme, which looked so well on paper.
On the occasion of my second visit this same feat was performed on an elderly gentleman, a very confirmed sceptic indeed.
Would it not wear a totally different aspect in the eyes of the sceptic and experienced man of the world than in those of the simple-hearted peasant who believed that everything which glittered was gold?
Let the sceptic consider well this statement: So far as we can see, everything would necessarily appear just as it does if there were a God.
There are as many ways of becoming a sceptic as there are of becoming a Christian.
Instead of finding a church, or some specialist, that could teach him, unfortunately and untruthfully the sceptic usually decides that it is impossible for him to be a Christian.
When a sceptic wins a faith, in the nature of the case it is vital.
A good sceptic is willing to help educate and civilize in a general way, but he will put forth no effort to evangelize.
And the average sceptic has not put forth the effort to see religious truth that the average pupil has to see mathematical truth.
Now one of the leading interests in the study of Pascal is to trace the influence upon him of the typical sceptic of the preceding century.
That he is not lacking in passion, behind his art and apart from it, was revealed on the day when the serene sceptic suddenly faced round and as polemist adopted a party, as popular orator proclaimed himself a radical Socialist.
But the sceptichas no faith in the alleged cure, and refuses.
The true sceptic is as much a spiritualist as he is a materialist.
To the genuine and poetical sceptic the whole world is incredible, with its bulbous mountains and its fantastic trees.
This is of course a mistake; the truesceptic has nothing to do with these theories simply because they are theories.
The wise sceptic avoids to be fooled by any extreme; he wishes to, see the game.
But scepticism is not capable of disturbing the well-grounded repose of the wise; for when the sceptic thinks he has involved everything in doubt, everything is still left in as much certainty as his scepticism.
The sceptic wants truth, wants to have things made plain to him, and has a right to be convinced in his own way.
The position of the sceptic is one taken up for defence; as we build a house not too high or too low; under the wind, but out of the dust.
These have not so efficiently solved the problem, that the sceptic should yield himself contentedly to their interpretation.
Each of these presents such proof that it is impossible for the sceptic to face them, and he can only avoid them by ignoring them.
As the game developed I gave hints in plenty, whilst my friends showed their joy at seeing a sceptic receive convincing proofs of the spirit powers.
This period embraces the Sophists, Socrates himself, Plato and Aristotle, and the Stoics and Epicureans; finally those Sceptic and Eclectic schools which rose naturally from the criticism detecting what is untenable in preceding systems.
The sceptic and eclectic turn of mind are but the reverse sides of the same mental coinage: he who selects from all is convinced by none.
The truth is, that the theist has assailed the sceptic in his strong and impregnable point, and left the vulnerable part of his system untouched.
If the sceptic should complain that this is to meet him, not with weapons drawn from the armory of reason, but from that of revelation, our reply is at hand: he has no longer anything left to be met.
If the sceptic could see what the necessitarian affirms, he might proceed from what he knows, by a direct and irresistible process, to a denial of the foreknowledge of God, in relation to human volitions.
The only remaining question which the sceptic has to ask is, that since God might have prevented moral evil by the creation of no beings who he foresaw would sin, why did he create such beings?
For, admitting that God might easily prevent sin, and cause holiness to reign universally, what had he left to oppose to the attacks of the sceptic but the shield of faith?
Why not act consistently with the character of the sceptic or the dogmatist, and not put on the one or the other by turns, according to the exigencies of a system?
But our business, at present, is not so much with the laughing sceptic as with the grave divine.
But how easy for the scepticto demand, What good purpose does it answer?
The effects of the hypothesis of the sceptic may be neutralized by opposing to it the hypothesis of the theist.
By this reply, the theist is, in our opinion, disarmed, and the sceptic victorious.
This sceptic was speedily put to confusion by the result, and perhaps one superstition the less remained in the circle that seemed to regard him as an oracle.
I lately heard the story of a pious negro woman whose faith in hell was sorely tried by a sceptic who asked her how brimstone enough could be found to burn all the wicked people in the world.
A wicket opened gently of itself, And so a sceptic joined the caravan.
Whatever any sceptic says, I still maintain I spent a year at Fez.
The sceptic cannot throw doubt on the existing wonders of modern times.
I own that I am a sceptic with regard to the last particulars.
Whether his merit lay in his genius or his industry, he raised a new fabric of philosophy out of part of those fragments to which the sceptic had reduced previous systems.
The philosopher of common sense, thus brought the accumulated thought and learning of advanced years to bear on a series of works which the sceptic had commenced in early youth.
We cannot associate in close companionship with the infidel and the sceptic without endangering our own spiritual life.
We should especially beware of admitting to intimacy the sceptic and infidel.
This belief is accepted by the sceptic as well as by the dogmatist, although the sceptic reduces it to a mere blind custom or 'association of ideas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sceptic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
