Quotes About Doubt

If I had had a soul it would have quailed.

I don't suppose you know where in Hell we're going?" "Not Hell," Puck said. "Well, perhaps Hell, but I think it unlikely.

I do not understand why he takes payment to protect us from himself.

I don't know, even now, if that was honesty or a guilt trip. Or maybe sometimes a thing can be both.

Oliver Cromwell came floating back to me. "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken.

You're going to get fired by the Synarche before they even really hire you, if you keep up this line of thinking." He laughed his light machine laugh. "This line of thinking is why they want me, Haimey.

The quaver in his voice was less showmanship than he would have wanted it to be.

Because I don't trust myself to make those decisions was not the sort of vulnerability you revealed to an enemy.

I'd believed. And now I couldn't believe anymore. And I missed that believing so much. This must be what losing your religion feels like.

Did Anna also, sometimes not know what to do next? Because she knew what to do next, because she knew what to laugh at, what to say, did it always follow that she knew where to turn? Inside everyone, is there an anxious person who stands to hesitate in an empty room?

It's hard to see what's good, what's right, when you're in the middle of it.

In 2002, scholars from the Ningxia Party School published the results of a survey among urban residents in Ningxia: roughly "25 percent did not believe in the cause of socialist construction any more, 50 percent doubted the CCP's role as vanguard of the working class . . . and 79 percent had lost their close emotional ties to the party.

The truth was, it was myself I couldn't trust, my eyes from betraying my heart.

I could imagine it, I thought, but all I could ever do was imagine. I couldn't know. I couldn't feel that.

Do you believe everything you hear?" he asked directly. "Of course not!" I answered. "Do you believe everything you say?" "Yes,

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

Mordecai allowed a smile to play across his face. "I have little doubt this ploy will try your patience. You must present Sir Percival as a gallant knight well-versed in chivalry and a favored champion in the tourneys. Perhaps a bit of poetry would be in order as well." Dante rolled his eyes and sighed. "I shall be the very picture of chivalrous drivel.

The only constant in our marriage is the edge of the cliff we're hanging on to, killing time until we tire ourselves out and give in to our inevitable collapse.

How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible!

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

Unbelief was easier than belief, much less demanding and subtly flattering because the agnostic felt himself to be intellectually superior to the believer. And then unbelief haunted by faith, as she knew by experience, produced a rather pleasant nostalgia, while belief haunted by doubt involved real suffering.

It is when children start to question their happiness that they lose it and grow up.

She knew there could be no certainty, only faith. Could she find faith?

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