Quotes About Doubt

And yet, rather than this I know that my Lord is different from the God that is preached in the churches.

Doubtful it stood, as two spent swimmers that do cling together and choke their art.

I sometimes do believe, and sometimes do not, as those that fear they hope, and know they fear.

When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!

You are out of your freaking skull! Maybe, but is that relevant?

Hope and fear are two sides of the same coin... She didn't want to give up hope, so she was just going to have to live with the fear.

Do the other angels know what they are doing? Am I the only confused one? Maybe I am unfinished, an unfinished angel.

It felt at times as if the very center of his world had become hollow, and try as he might to fill it with faith, the emptiness lingered. He was not sure why his faith was not enough, although he suspected that it was because it had come to him so late in life. If he were God, he'd look askance, too, at deathbed conversions. No matter what the priests might tell him, piety must lose some of its lustre when it was not altogether voluntary.

I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.

When you don't have self-esteem you will hesitate before you do anything in your life. You will hesitate to go for the job you really wanna go for, you will hesitate to ask for a raise Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you will hesitate to report a rape, you will hesitate to defend yourself when you are discriminated against Ã¢â'¬Â¦ You will hesitate to vote, you will hesitate to dream. For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution and our revolution is long overdue.

I know that safety is always unattainable. You're never safe.

Like most Hindus, I think I have. I am, as I told you, a believer, despite a brief period of schoolboy atheism — of the kind that comes with the discovery of rationality and goes with an acknowledgement of its limitations.

You might have a hundred ways to fool yourself, but I don't bother with that shit. I know better. You're it for me, and what we just did in that bed together proved it. I'm smitten. Gone. And I can't stand that you don't trust me.

That's why you brought me here, isn't it? You knew I wouldn't fu*k her. I suspected. It was a gamble. If you'd touch her, I would have known that you wern't in love with Kimber.

A sufficiently advanced alien is indistinguishable. And it made no difference if he believed or not. Either God is, or is not. When had it ever mattered if Humans believed?

Then one night at the very end of May he came home late with the smell of perfume on him. So thats it, I thought: after all these years. And I waited. Time after time I'd seen it happen to other men at such an age—a change of life: they get to thinking how much theyve missed, and they get scared. Just wait, I told myself, lying alone in bed those nights (it was June by then); it will play out on him soon enough.

me if you knew something, but you couldn't

Well, she said, how can I be sure there aren't invisible people in the world? Scientists didn't believe in the mountain gorilla for hundreds of years. And now look. So if scientists can be wrong, then all of us can be wrong. I mean, what if all those invisible people ARE scientists? Think about that one.

He said his prayers just in case his parents had been wrong about God all those years.

And trust me, there are times when the last thing you want to hear is the truth.

Everybody prayed; everybody lied about it. Even atheists prayed on airplanes and bingo nights.

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Hop in? Dude, are you out of your ever-loving mind? I can't touch this. I might leave a fingerprint or something. (Nick) Oh the horror. Guess I'll have to trade the piece of junk in and get a new one if that happens. (Acheron)

You know, I've walked this earth for over eleven thousand years, my lady. I have seen things in my life that are unimaginable to you, and you ask me if I doubt you? Lady, I doubt the very air you breathe. (Acheron)