Quotes About Doubt

Jesus loves you." "Then how come he never calls?

The belief which has not been accorded to conviction may come to be extorted by very shame.

Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it.

He weighs the volume in his hand; this one has been the center of the whirlwind. Then DRUMMOND notices the Bible on the JUDGE's bench. He picks up the Bible in his other hand; he looks from one volume to the other, balancing them thoughtfully, as if his hands were scales. He half-smiles, half-shrugs. Then DRUMMOND slaps the two books together and jams them in his brief case, side by side. Slowly, he climbs to the street level and crosses the empty square.

God's unfailing love for us is an objective fact affirmed over and over in the Scriptures. It is true whether we believe it or not. Our doubts do not destroy God's love, nor does our faith create it. It originates in the very nature of God, who is love, and it flows to us through our union with His beloved Son.

Yet, I acknowledge it often seems more difficult to trust God than to obey Him.

asking a demanding why of God.

Most of us are tempted, from time to time, to question God's love for

Satan, whose very first act toward man was to question the goodness of God, will even plant the thought in our minds that God is up in heaven mocking us in our distress.

When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His holiness. But when we fail to trust God we doubt His sovereignty and question His goodness.

God's unfailing love for us is an objective fact affirmed over and over in the Scriptures. It is true whether we believe it or not. Our doubts do not destroy God's love, nor does our faith create it.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

Look, suppose you're an official in the National Science Foundation, and a guy comes to you and says: Listen I have this interesting idea, give me $100,000 and I'll work on it. And then 50 of the most respected people in the field come up to you and say: Look, the guy's crazy, that can't be true. Who are you going to believe? You're going to end up supporting a very conservative, middle brow scientific institution. It's hopeless.

But the question I am pressing is how the "dagger" can continue to serve its purpose once we have seen through the fact that it is a shadowy illusion.

Today he would believe. Tomorrow would answer for itself.

Although unanswered prayer is indeed a theme of the book, it is not the heart of the book, for unanswered prayer describes a problem but offers no solutions.

Sometimes, it's like you know what people think: You know what they're thinking, and you know it's wrong. All you want to do if change their mind, but you can't.

Metric fixation, which aspires to imitate science, too often resembles faith.

You'll recognize those men, the ones inclined to their dark side, because they'll expect you to carry their load. They'll smother your anger with their pain, they'll make you doubt yourself, and they'll tell you they love you the whole time. Some do it big, like Ed, but most do it in quiet steps, like your father.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

Our knowledge about ourselves is our least reliable knowledge. Yet, so thoroughly do we ordinarily champion our own cause that it is acknowledged effective to believe that a person who deems it impossible to any further champion his/her own cause must be guilty.

number one problem that I believe plagues believers today is doubt about what God can and will do for His children.

Don't let doubt enter into your heart. Stop it in its tracks where it starts—in the mind. Replace every doubtful thought with a faith thought and speak the Word! If you live like this, talk like this, and do this on a consistent basis, you are going to be a success.