Quotes About Doubt

Believing where we cannot prove.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

No todo lo que lleva habitó es santa rosa

He gave it the benefit of the doubt; he was Scotch. ("The Wendigo")

And each, believing he was utterly and finally right, damned with equally positive conviction the rest of the world.

We are not sure of sorrow,And joy was never sure.

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer ' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

As he said it Mark, belted in in the back seat, had watched the holy water glint inside the plastic bubble next to the Virgin Mary and had wondered if the holy water was selective too, and if that's what God was these days, and whether everybody now simply had a private god who sanctioned his or her own choices

I personally shall be giving her the benefits of the doubt, Elisabeth said. Now you're ready, Daniel said. Ready for what? Elisabeth said. Ready to bagatelle it as it is, Daniel said.

Elisabeth is faintly perturbed. She realizes this is because she likes to imagine her mother knows nothing much about anything.

He is tremendously strong, she thought, and liked the idea, even as she had feared that strength when she first met him

But as I grew up, I felt the tension one surely must feel when being simultaneously taught the importance of a specific dogma and the importance of freedom from dogma.

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

There was... her capacity to believe. There was as well her capacity to be deceived, since you can't have one without the other...

I'm not too gone to be healed, am I? I'm not too gone am I?

I don't believe I'll ever leave: will I really leave?

I wanted something different—Or is this it?

I don't believe something.

I'm not who I thought I'm not there or here

I don't listen when someone says god. I don't want to talk about god.

Do I need him? Do I really have to have this life?

Is there always a further horror?

And so he goes on dwindling away maybe through too much prayer is now too rarefied to touch or settle anywhere

key invitation of our spiritual journeys is to be emotionally honest about our uncertainties. Questions such as the one asked by John are signs of a living, growing, active faith, not evidence of a dying one.