Quotes About Doubt

A short time later he spoke to Brother Lucien, who vehemently rejected the idea in fright.

We are not necessarily doubting," said C. S. Lewis, "that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be." He

Fear knocked, faith answered. No one was there.

His feelings of panic had passed once before; it would pass again, he told himself. He must go forward on faith, not feeling.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives—if you win, you win all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

We are not necessarily doubting," said C. S. Lewis, "that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

I don't know what 'ought' to be.

I have a limited amount of faith in humans as a species, and have little problem imagining someone that petty and insane." Jackson

Because she chose to get married," Ida Belle said. "That's always suspicious as far as I'm concerned.

What's wrong?" Gertie asked as she put a bowl of stew in front of me. "Nothing," I said. "Everything." "There's a bit of a gap between those two words," Ida Belle said.

I have a limited amount of faith in humans as a species, and have little problem imagining someone that petty and insane.

There is something very significant about Jane Austen's own reservation in her letter about the Evangelicals. She was "at least persuaded that they who are so from reason and feeling, must be happiest and safest". It leaves one wondering just what her own reason and feeling were telling her. We have no idea. In this passage, she sounds curiously like someone of our own times saying how much they would like to believe in God, if only they could.

Judges live with shadows behind them.

Every time we try and get it together, something happens to pull us apart, and I can't help but feel that this is just isn't meant to be. And God knows I'm happy enough on my own, but tell me, is this how am I supposed to carry on?

The most likely moment for something incredible to happen to me was the moment I was most certain nothing ever would.

Where there's smoke, there's fraud.

What is reality anyway! It's nothing but a collective hunch.

Fear is a funny unpredictable thing.

To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.

I've never experienced peace in my life, and I don't want to. I don't trust the idea

If you don't believe it's elves, that's your problem. I know it's elves.

Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.

Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.

I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?" I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why do people keep asking me that?" He turned to stare at me, his eyes worried. "Who else keeps asking you that? Are any of them doctors?