Quotes About Doubt

For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

When you go into a show, you pray it's successful, but you just don't know what's going to happen.

There were times when I actually prayed not to get married.

The experience of prayer when there is no awareness of God and no apparent response from ourselves should not lead us to escape from prayer or give it up.

Prayer is so complicated.

I don't believe in prayer, I'm a pretty hardcore agnostic.

There was a time in my life that I thought prayer did not matter either. There was a time earlier in my life where I did not give God a second thought.

People talk about preaching to the converted, which is total codswallop rubbish. There is no such thing as being converted forever - absolutely no such thing.

Yes I did study to be a preacher, but I didn't finish.

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.

I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.

You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?

I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

I'm not sure about Richarlison. I like him, I liked him when he was at Watford and he started well at Everton but would his preferred position be out on the left and cutting in? I'm not sure.

As far as ever wanting to give up, there have been a few times where I thought, 'Man, am I even good enough to do this?' Because people have said things to me like, 'You're too pretty. You shouldn't do comedy. Go ahead and get pregnant by a rich guy and chill.'

I've no idea if I'll manage in the Premier League. It's easy to say I will but you don't know.

I always believed I was a Premier League player, but in the first few months when I wasn't getting a game I started to doubt whether I was good enough. Everyone kept on telling me: 'Wait for your opportunity and make sure that you take it' - and that's what I did.

I don't prepare for my roles. I don't watch movies to get inspired. I don't dig deep. I'll never be that type of actor, and I doubt that I ever will be.

Usually when I get nervous and don't know how to prepare for something, I just don't do anything at all, which is not necessarily the best idea.

That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.