Quotes About Doubt

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

Quid est enim fids nisi crdere quod nn vids? (Augustine Evang. Iohan.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

We must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria. Besides, what proof is there that "the churches" know more about "God" than the Cockney sentry on duty outside the camp? We have only their say-so.

He watched his feet, the only things that were keeping him from finding out if there really was a Kingdom of Heaven or not.

The best amongst us, in like manner, I fear, are come to the same pass that they were in Melancthon's time, who complained as he writeth in this sort: "We understand whom to avoid (meaning the Papists), yet whom to follow we know not."

As soon as we believe in something, we search for ways to prove it's true. What we are looking for here is to learn to doubt your limitations and be more certain of what is possible for you.

Testimony should be treated as reliable until proved otherwise. "First, trust the word of others, then doubt if there are good reasons for doing so.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Lord, will you send me with such an unbelieving heart to persuade others to believe? Must I daily plead with sinners about everlasting life and everlasting death, and have no more belief or feeling of these weighty things myself? Oh send me not naked and unprovided to the work; but, as you command me to do it, furnish me with a spirit suitable thereto." Prayer

He that believeth that he believe, believeth himself and not God (333)[.]

Doubt and fear of the future are behind the reluctance of many to wholeheartedly accept and follow God's invitation to join Him.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Graced by those signs which truth delights to own, The timid blush, and mild submitted tone: Whate'er she says, though sense appear throughout, Displays the tender hue of female doubt; Deck'd with that charm, how lovely wit appears

We can only believe what we have evidence enough to prove.

The old adage, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' isn't always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism, and doubt that are inherent in this belief can and does keep people from taking advantage of excellent opportunities.

So, too, I and countless others have chosen to give God a fair hearing—if only he would speak. I would listen to him even now, at this very moment. Yet he remains silent.

Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?

These virtuosi maintained that whatever has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, is likely to be untrue.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.