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Quotes About Doubt

Those of little faith are of little hatred.
~ Eric Hoffer
She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Religion isn't yours firsthand until you doubt it right down to the ground.
~ Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.
I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.
~ Frans de Waal
A belief is an uneducated guess.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.
~ Voltaire
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us and I for one must be content to remain agnostic.
~ Charles Darwin
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.
~ Francis Bacon
If only God would give me a clear sign like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
~ Woody Allen
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me it's the parts that I do understand.
~ Mark Twain
People don't believe in gods because they can't wrap their minds around the idea of someone allowing all the terrible things in the world to happen.
~ Kaitlin Bevis, Persephone
A sure way to have someone crushed by their doubt is to preach a sermon on how to remove your doubt.
~ Matt Chandler
A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief but they run away fr'm doubt.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
If you can't believe in God the chances are your God is too small.
~ J. B. Phillips
It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?
~ Heinrich Heine
When people cease to believe in God they don't believe in nothing they believe in anything.
~ G. K. Chesterton
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
If there's a God why are there such things as famine and The Jerry Springer Show.
~ Wendy Morgan
Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet.
~ Anonymous
His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Gods didn't mind atheists, if they were deep, hot, fiery, atheists like Simony, who spend their whole life hating gods for not existing. That sort of atheism was a rock. It was nearly belief …
~ Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
An agnostic is a creature that is religiously skeptical whenever it is told that God exists … or that He doesn't.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.
~ Leonard Woolf
They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief.
~ Geoffrey Wood