Quotes About Doubt

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

God forgive the church of Jesus Christ for trading its birthright access to the transcendent for the pot of stew that is horizontal helpfulness. How shortsighted and human centered. The outcome of this disaster is that we have created a Creator in our own image who weeps, cares, and longs to help, but in the end we doubt He can because we have made Him so much like ourselves. In making God our buddy, we find Him nice for cuddling but not much help when the hurricane comes.

The marquee scrolling across our minds trying to reinterpret life reads: "God-Against-Us." This becomes the dominant lens through which our flesh interprets life. We no longer give our loving Father the benefit of the doubt. Instead, we view every event as conclusive proof that God is against us.

I guess I've never had anyone expect anything of me before. I feel so overwhelmed at the possibility of letting these men down

The people I know who thought brutal thoughts and acted in brutal ways - the racists, the sexists, the bigots - never seemed to doubt themselves. They were always sure that they were right... I almost envied them the strength of their beliefs. It must have made life so much easier for them.

Religious experiences are often dismissed—not out of doubt that they aren't real, but out of fear that they are real after all.

Here was a man, roughly my own age, who had struggled with the same things I did: pride, disappointment, confusion, doubt, sadness, loneliness.

though I was by that point rather fond of Saint Jude, I was afraid of what my friends might say if they saw a strange plastic statue standing on my dresser. So Saint Jude was stuffed inside my sock drawer, and was brought out of the drawer only on special occasions.

The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.

This novel business is an awful business. Why the hell did I ever get mixed up in it?

Those who are brave, are the greatest cowards of all. For they fear failure.

"There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

It is with this thought that many believers would call up Kierkegaard's famous phrase, the 'leap of faith,' pictured perhaps as a leap from here to there, leaving out the in-between... What is usually overlooked, however, is that Kierkegaard said nothing about a safe landing; there was only the leap, and no guarantee of solid ground beyond it.

So this is a fundamental problem, being out of a loop that I don't even believe in.

Mila was right. This case was fishy. In fact, it smelled like Sea World.

Moral Skepticism is the idea that there is no such thing as objective moral truth.

I do not believe in demons," he murmured, "but only in my Father Who is in Heaven. Only in Him - and in my other father, who has climbed on this mountain before me.

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.

Craftwork--it is neither as easy as faith, nor as sure as science.

Uncertainty is a key aspect of human reasoning. Without uncertainty, we would never doubt ourselves or our decisions. We would be certain that we're right all the time. It's this certainty that can make an AI's ability to learn turn brittle over time. But if an AI is uncertain and capable of doubt, it can begin to judge itself, to question whether an action or decision will have the consequence it desires and test it more thoroughly.

It was said there were no atheists in a foxhole.

Are you sure, Gray?' He lifted his eyes. 'No . . . I'm not. I'm not sure of a damn thing.' He slipped his hands free of the monsignor's and peeled the battery off the phone, cutting the last ring in half. 'But that doesn't mean I won't act.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.