Quotes About Doubt

What cannot be cannot be, besides which, it is impossible.

That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen too much to believe it.' "It has nothing to do with belief,' said Ansky, 'it has to do with understanding, and then changing.

I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.

I don't know" "When a man says that, it usually means, "No, I won't but from time to time, I'll toy with the idea, so I can pretend i eventually intend to do it.

I defended him, "He's a good man. He was kind to me. I want to believe he was really my friend." "I know that. So do I. But good men can disagree. Severely.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. Consider

Silly me. To think there was such a thing as a safe place in the world.

I suppose I cannot blame you for doubting me. I could scarcely believe it myself at first. I found all sorts of ways to deny it and explain it away. But it wouldn't stay gone.

How long? I asked, and then remembered that speech came from my mouth. 'How long?

I don't know,' I said grimly. 'Oh,' she said. Then after a time, she added, 'When a man says that, it usually means, "No, I won't, but from time to time, I'll toy with the idea, so I can pretend I eventually intend to do it.

I couldn't tell him it would come out right, because I wasn't sure it would. I couldn't tell him that I'd trust his judgment, because I didn't. Then Hap found the words for both of us. "I love you, Tom. I'll keep trying." I sighed in relief. "Me, too. I love you, and I'll keep trying.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

When in doubt chicken out.

Failure is usually boring. It is the credible but unrealized threat of failure that is interesting.

Robin Lee Hatcher

Who? What's wrong?" Daniel stammered.

Anti-intellectualism remains strongly entrenched in many parts of the church, but it is grounded in fear, not in faith. (p. 19)

It is a "terrible trivialization," Crossan writes, "to imagine that all Jesus' followers lost their faith on Good Friday and had it restored by apparitions on Easter Sunday.

Faith as assensus is "relatively impotent, relatively powerless. You can believe all the right things and still be in bondage.

I bet if we all threw our problems in a huge pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is about. That's why I always give people the benefit of the doubt; it's one of my rules to live by. There may be a reason why someone is having a bad day, there's often something that we can't see. She is not necessarily a bad person, just someone facing a bad situation.

If you can't remember something, did it really happen?

He'd never been shy, but he'd always been a little uncertain around girls. He just couldn't believe they liked him.