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Quotes About Questioning

The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.
~ Robert Browning
I've lost my faith in science.
~ Bette Davis
But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.
~ Kathleen Norris
Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts.
~ Robert H. Schuller
When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?
~ D. A. Carson
FAITH receives more than it asks. DOUBT loses more than it disbelieved.
~ Beth Moore
I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.
~ Peter Garrett
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
Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.
~ Brad Warner
I think most religious people experience just as much doubt as they do faith; they just don't admit it. (13)
~ Unknown
The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
~ Claude Bernard
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.
~ George Orwell
Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
~ Oscar Wilde
Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Faith lives in honest doubt.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Faith doesn't begin until reason stops.
~ Jean-Claude Carrière
If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.
~ Maynard James Keenan
There is no faith, without a critical mind
~ Tariq Ramadan
Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.
~ Gayle Forman
Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.
~ Wilson Mizner
if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.
~ Frederick Buechner
Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.
~ Elie Wiesel
Faith is intellectual laziness.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.
~ Nawal El Saadawi