Quotes About Doubt

I've heard you're good, but I don't think even you can sue a dead man.

a part of me had always known that i'd stayed in the relationship longer than i should because i lacked the confidence to believe i'd find someone else who would accept me and my condition. i was also smart enough to know that would never happen until i fully accepted me.

Besides, I no longer believed in God's will. I was not willing to accept that it was God's will for a good man like my father, a devoted man, to spend his final days in some care facility.

I figured if God wasn't going to listen in Vietnam, when I needed him most, I wasn't gonna keep asking.

I've been to hell, and I didn't see any sign of God. After a while you stop looking. You figure it out on your own.

One thinks the worst even while clinging to hopes for the best.

That's the way with civilized men. When they can't explain something by their half-baked science, they refuse to believe it.

That story had at its core a discussion of my fundamental view that nothing in life is certain and that, consequently, all decisions are about probabilities.

For those who believe in God no explanation is necessary; for those who don't believe in God no explanation is possible.

Suspicious we are, we men who walk the earth.

Jesus obviously does not answer many questions from you or me. Which is why apologetics is always such a questionable enterprise. Jesus just doesn't argue.

The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful.

God and I have decided to ignore each other. It's for the best.

a land where living is so hard that men want a God so they can hate him.

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. I attack the monsters, the phantoms of imagination that have ruled the world. I attack slavery. I ask for room -- room for the human mind.

The religionist is a living fossil, embedded in that rock called faith.

Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.

The instant we admit that a book is too sacred to be doubted , or even reasoned about , we are mental serfs.

The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow – Hope shining upon the tears of grief.

As long as men did nothing except to render their fellows wretched; as long as they only butchered and burnt the innocent and helpless, God maintained the strictest and most heartless neutrality. But when some honest man, some great and tender soul expressed a doubt as to the truth of the Scriptures, or prayed to the wrong God, or to the right one by the wrong name, then the real God leaped like a wounded tiger upon his victim, and from his quivering flesh tore his wretched soul.