Quotes About Doubt

My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.

But you're not as stupid as they say!... Or are you?

Où s'arrêtait la sincérité et où commençait le jeu avec lui?

God had nothing to do with it, or only as much as He has something to do with everything. It was all just as I imagined it would be. A huge lot of hocus-pocus. For hours they put me to the acid test. Except I never imagined that they would sit there and write down all the rubbish I was spouting, and that after that I had to write my name under it, saying that I myself had really spouted all that.

For all the robots who question their programming.

How can you be sure?" "Human networks are the most vulnerable," Eliasz replied.

You sure you feel all right to do this today?" He opened her carry bag, took out a couple of containers of food, and put them in the under-the-counter fridge. "I'll be fine," Meg replied, sounding testy. If she would let him sniff her properly, he'd know if she was all right without having to keep asking.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongueWho says my hand a needle better fits,A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong,For such despite they cast on female wits:If what I do prove well, it won't advance,They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance.

In the first place, I don't believe you,' answered I;: 'in the second, if you will be such a fool, I can't hinder it.

What shall I do, if all my love, My hopes, my toil, are cast away, And if there be no God above, To hear and bless me when I pray?

You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.

Where does unbelief begin? / When I was young // there were degrees of certainty. / I could say, Yes I know that I have two hands. / Then one day I awakened on a planet of people whose hands / occasionally disappear–

My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.

I've come to understand the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with the space where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.

Fiction forms what streams in us. Naturally it is suspect.

What sense is there in pain at all—however we contrive it for ourselves as we cast about for ways to bind up the wound between us and God?

not to believe, that is, in the story of his own life. Bold move.

I couldn't understand the mindless acceptance of dogma, an acceptance people were quick to call faith.

Boyd loved an inaccuracy, for example, because an inaccuracy could render everything else you said void. It

Our fears are not always reasonable

Neither Abraham or Sarah consulted God.

Come," [Jesus] said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. MATTHEW 14:29

Have faith in God," Jesus answered. "I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him." MARK 11:22 – 23

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.