Quotes About Doubt

the torturer scores a victory over his victim when the latter, in the grip of doubt, begins to torture himself.

As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice. Akiba

He spoke only of what he had seen. But people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen. Some even insinuated that he only wanted their pity, that he was imagining things. Others flatly said that he had gone mad.

So I wrote this novel in order to explore distant memories and buried doubts: What would have become of me if I had spent not just one year in the camps, but two or four? If I had been appointed kapo? Could I have struck a friend? Humiliated an old man? And

Yes, we even doubted his resolve to exterminate us. Annihilate an entire people? Wipe out a population dispersed throughout so many nations? So many millions of people! By what means? In the middle of the twentieth century!

I belong to a traumatized generation that often felt abandoned by God and betrayed by mankind. And yet, I believe that one must not estrange oneself from either God or man.

people not only refused to believe his tales, they refused to listen.

Dietro di me udii il solito uomo domandare: - Dov'è dunque Dio? E io sentivo in me una voce che gli rispondeva: - Dov'è? Eccolo: è appeso lì, a quella forca…

Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him" - Moshie

Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him, he liked to say.

Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.

Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.

Guidance for Israel in their wanderings was unquestionable (Numbers 9). There could be no doubt if God wished them to move. Shall my Father be less definite with me? I cannot believe so. Often I doubt, for I cannot see, but surely the Spirit will lead as definitely as the pillar of cloud. I must be as willing to remain as to go, for the presence of God determines the whereabouts of His people.

Maturidade é a capacidade de levar a questão não respondida com fé, mantendo-se fiel à Palavra pela qual vivemos.

Half of the things are as they seem. The other half, who knows. This has always been true.

I am crippled in love relationships by fear, by defense, by doubt, by my own lack of self-regard. It makes me constantly want to abandon ship.

I don't know. It depends on the day. Depends on the hour of the day...I don't really know if I really want to do that. I think I do and then I think I don't. It makes me really nervous to think about really doing it.

Gee, color her suspicious, but if he kept this up, she was going to start thinking he wasn't a mall security guard at all.

Well, that's what they said. (It could have just been indigestion, though.)

always—you have God's Word to guide you. When in doubt, check it out!

Day after day Matt tramped the woods alone, trying to shake the doubts that walked beside him like his own shadow.

Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy.

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.