Quotes About Doubt

Nadie puede decir si habríamos insistido, dada la pobreza de nuestros medios de investigación, si hubiésemos conocido la verdadera proporción de lo que estábamos buscando»

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Porque antes he dicho que a los escritores, en especial a los novelistas, nos encantan los impostores; pero es que además creo que tenemos una notable tendencia a sentirnos un fraude.

As for God, I frankly admit that I find it easier to live with the ageold questions about suffering than with many of the easy or pious explanations offered from time to time. Some of which seem to verge on blasphemy.

Uncertainty is always hell.

The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.

nothin', or his edukashin which he niver got? You that think ye know things, answer me that. But I found no answer. I was wondering how long Ortheris, in the bank of the river, would hold out, and whether I should be forced to help him to desert, as I had given my word.

known as the five 'hindrances' (n?vara?a): sensual desire, ill-will, tiredness and sleepiness, excitement and depression, and doubt. An ancient simile compares the mind that is continually prey to the five hindrances to a bowl of water disturbed or contaminated in five ways: mixed with red dye, steaming hot, full of moss and leaves, ruffled by the wind, muddied and in a dark place.

I could no longer believe even in life. Which meant that I had come to be the reverse, the opposite of a Christian. For me, now, the only reality is death.

The only way I could go on living was to believe I was not living.

It's funny about religion, whether it's the religion of white Rasta kids or even my own mom it's usually got some other point than thanks and praise. For the people doing the thanking and praising, I mean.

How was I to be a scientist, father Lion?' Science is knowing. What could I have known? Others always did the knowing, knew what was in me, what should come out of me, what was best for me. I didn't know who I was, what I wanted. I know less now, and I am afraid.

Intellectual questions and doubts naturally arise when we read Bible stories because to our rational minds they often seem so utterly unbelievable. Perhaps we need a new frame of reference. When we open the Bible we should enter its pages with an attitude of Bring it on! Only then will we see the power of this incredible book.

How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal father?

Maybe she was in a coma after all and just didn't know it.

if the washroom was unreal, then none of what he remembered from that afternoon in the washroom could be real, either.

How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal farther?

I've always thought time was a little iffy, myself.

It also felt like home, and she wasn't sure she liked it.

I know someone said that even a really bad liar tells more truth than lies, but you still can't tell what are lies and what truth, can you?

She stepped towards the door beneath the sign, then stopped and looked back at him. 'You'll be right here, right?' 'I promise.' 'And you'll stay with me tonight, won't you?' 'Of course. I won't leave you.' I've got to snuff her as soon as possible and get this over with, Kawashima thought as he watched her enter the building.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.

There is something frightful in the fact that the most dangerous thing of all, playing at Christianity, is never included in the list of heresies and schisms.