Quotes About Doubt

Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not.

I feel that very frequently prayer is made a refuge to dodge the action of faith.

If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.

If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.

Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking.

Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.

All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital and you know there is no God. Prayer doesn't make any difference. Those people pray for their beloved children to live and they die.

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.

Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?

No prayer fully expresses our faith.

One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.

The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity has not been tried and found wanting - it has been found demanding, and not tried.

The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.

Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.

It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

I'm afraid I did not pray hard enough last night.

How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.

Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift.