Quotes About Doubt

I do not even know whether I am the one living it or if my life is living me (if we allow that empty word 'live' to mean whatever it wants to), and I should not really swear to anything at all.

Pasar de los fantasmas de la fe a los espectros de la razón es solamente cambiar de celda.

Não me digas que me queres Pois não sei acreditar. No mundo há muitas mulheres Mas mentem todas a par.

Dac?,din întâmplare,aceast? lume e o greÅŸeal? iar eu sunt adev?rat? Dac? lumea e o greÅŸeal? înseamn? c? este o greÅŸeal? a tuturor oamenilor. Åži fiecare dintre noi este cel puÅ£in greÅŸeala fiec?ruia dintre noi. Dar de ce îmi pun eu întreb?ri,dac? nu pentru c? sunt bolnav?

Trazem-me a fé como um embrulho fechado numa salva alheia. Querem que o aceite, mas que o não abra. Trazem-me a ciência, como uma faca num prato, com que abrirei as folhas de um livro de páginas brancas. Trazem-me a dúvida como o pó dentro de uma caixa; mas para quem e trazem a caixa, se ela não tem senão pó?

free me from religion because it is gentle and from unbelief because it is strong.

Insane asylums are full of lunatics with certainties!

A veces darle demasiadas vueltas a lo que uno va a hacer nos paraliza.

Anything you do is a lie and nothing that happens to you is true.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.

There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark where he might be walking on the water and not know it and then suddenly know it and drown.

Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there is no truth... No truth behind all truths is what I and this church preach! Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief'... is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith.

Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.

We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

I don't have to run from anything because I don't believe in anything.

That's the trouble with you preachers, he said. You've all got too good to believe in anything, and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew she would never be a saint.... but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what it would be like without it and if being without it would be ultimately possible or not.