Quotes About Doubt

Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.

Be suspicious, but do not believe the opposite.

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

One can only blaspheme if one believes.

May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us

To ask the hard question is simple.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.

Hesitation becomes doubt. Doubt turns into fear. Fear leads to inaction. By then, you're out of the game.

If Mother is so intent on paying me compliments, it might be because she doesn't really love me very much. In fact, the more she tells me how pretty I am, the uglier I feel. To be honest, I have never once thought of myself as pretty

This life with his grandson was about all he could manage. And for that he needed to be flexible, in mind and body, with the courage to doubt what he had believed for over a century.

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the faith to believe that God listens.

?üphen varsa, söyle gitsin!

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Je me demande encore si, tout compte fait, le monde n'étaient qu'apparences.

les hommes n'ont inventé dieu que pour distraire leur démons

Tu ferais quoi, Ach, si tu étais le bon Dieu? - J'suis pas le bon Dieu. - D'accord, mais admettons. Tu ferais quoi? - Que veux-tu que je fasse? - C'est pour ça que je te le demande. (...) - M'est avis qu'il a claqué la porte il y a des lustres. - C'est à dire? - Ben, il veut plus entendre parler de nos foutaises. (...) Forcément, il jette l'éponge.

Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.

If you need all the answers to trust God, you are not really trusting God.

The person who asks a lot of questions has room for their faith to grow.

existential overload

Would I have fared better if I had stood my ground and stared down my pursuers? Could so-called self-preservation sometimes backfire and become the very cause of pain?