Quotes About Doubt

and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

Dica un po', Malaussène, non è che mi sta sfinendo solo perché sta per diventare papà?" "Sì." "Ecco. Cinquecento milioni di indù sono probabilmente nella sua stessa situazione.

As I wandered the streets in a desolate funk, I would ask myself the impossible, the embarrassing, the ultimate childish question of Why? - Why this city? Why this life? Why anything? Of course I knew that "why" was a question you were supposed to stop asking around the age of ten but I couldn't free myself from it.

That's not the kind of thing crazy people do, her muddled thoughts insisted. That's the kind of thing crazy people see.

Muchos aceptan la verdad por autoridad, en vez de la verdad como autoridad.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

Rousseau's search might prove fruitless. Perhaps

Where there is doubt, faith has its reason for being. Clearly faith is not needed where certainty supposedly exists, but only in situations where doubt is possible, even present.

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the idea of God, not in God Himself. MIGUEL D

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

How do you know when it's me?" "Your footsteps are apologetic?" "What does that mean?" She turned, smiling wiping her hands on her long, black skirt. "It doesn't mean anything," she said. "Everybody else here just does what they want to do and doesn't think twice about it. But you're never sure.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

I ain't shit! I ain't shit! shouts your brain, and this place proves the point.

I was borrowing confidence on credit from faith.

Werner Herzog: "My steps are resolute. And now the Earth shakes. When I walk, a buffalo walks. When I rest, a mountain rests." This is echoed by Zen master D?gen, "If you doubt mountains walking you don't know your own walking.

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.

The thought crossed my mind that I should have been a bit more wary before climbing into a helicopter and flying to God knows where without an escape route.

I don't know if she has a boyfriend. You should ask her.' 'If I ask her, she'll say yes. It's better not to know. That way you're always in with a chance. Even if they're with their husbands, and you've just watched them take their vows, never ask them if they're married. Totally ruins your chances.

It wasn't that she didn't believe in love; but she no longer believed in it for herself.

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.

Every single time a self-doubting or fearful thought enters your mind, realize it, reject it, and replace it with faith.

By all means, turn to wise and trusted friends in your moments of need. And don't be afraid to express your full gamut of emotions—David shows us that God wants us to come before Him with full honesty, even when we have doubts or feel anger. But my brothers and sisters, most of all turn to God in worship, in prayer, and in eagerly seeking Him and His counsel in the Word of God.