Quotes About Doubt

It was a vague belief that she herself was not quite real—or that she did not belong to the life she had been born into.

The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.

What if you did not feel uncertainty, the white writing says. Are you exempt from doubt? Why not rename it excitement?

She asked what I had learned in Sunday school and I always said, "Jesus wept." I didn't want to go into my feelings about a God who put a father to a test to see if he'd kill his own son like a lamb to roast, and then sent his only child to be nailed onto a cross and fed vinegar

You can't doubt so much, Psyche

Everything was fine, but Weetzie wanted a baby. "How could you want one?" My Secret Agent Lover Man said. "There are way too many babies. And diseases. And nuclear accidents. And crazy psychos. We cant have a baby," he said.

Maybe he was real. Maybe I'd made him up. Either way, he didn't think I needed him anymore. Maybe he was right.

He might be faithless but I believe in him.

We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters.

Writing was my religion, my foremost purpose in life, my consolation. But as the years passed and I didn't have the successes that others deemed the qualifications of a "real" writer, I went into hiding. I wrote, but I lost the strength of my words. I wrote, but with a doubt that needled each sentence, a lack of self-confidence that clouded my imagination. My boldness evaporated. My verve started to become a distant memory. I lost my truth.

Barbie was no longer afraid of anything. It was like the thing Mab had said about belief. The belief is sometimes the biggest part of it all. You can choose to believe in your published book being held in the loving hands of strangers, your name tattooed forever on the heart of the one you adore; you can choose to believe in tiny red-haired pesky piskies--all the things 'they' may tell you not to believe in. But who are they anyway? What do they know? What makes them any more real?

He was increasingly doubtful of the existence of any God; but he hoped it was a vengeful one.

Lord," he said heavily. "Lord, this isn't exactly what I had in mind." But he knew he was going to marry that girl anyway.

God does not abandon men, my son. Men abandon God.

All I can tell you is faith is just the beginning of a long, difficult journey.

Why couldn't he trust that the Lord would do the same for her? Because he knew she didn't believe.

Oh, Lord, sometimes I know how David feels. Where are You when I need You? Why do You seem so far away? Why are You so silent? I can count my blessings from morning to night. I can remember all the things You've done for me from the time I was a little child. I remember and I cry out to You, and You're nowhere to be found. I have lost my joy.

The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he shatter her? What has this god of yours ever really done for you? She stood very still for a long moment, her back to him. Everything.

infant's face and brushed the tiny palm. When the baby's fingers closed around his finger, his heart raced even faster. Never had he felt such encompassing joy—and spreading terror. Am I to be his earthly father, Lord? A simple carpenter? Surely your Son deserves better than I! Joseph looked around at the dark walls of the shepherds

But when you ask him, be sure that you really expect him to answer, for a doubtful mind is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.

You follow your faith, as weak as it is, rather than your doubts, as strong as they seem to you right now. You do that and leave the rest up to God. He'll make sure everything goes according to plan.

Oh, God, I can't hope for anything. I can't. I won't survive if I do.

The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he shatter her? 'What has this god of yours ever really done for you?' She stood very still for a long moment, her back to him. 'Everything.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.