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Quotes About Doubt

How could she let him go, with all that information in his head? It was spotty, and they had no way of knowing how much of it was true, but it was all they had.
~ John Varley
Love the optimism, doubt the reality.
~ John Walker
If everything isn't black and white I say why the hell not.
~ John Wayne
Are you going to believe what you see or what I tell you?
~ John Wayne in McClintock
When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me." - John Wesley
~ John Wesley
The question is what is the question?
~ John Wheeler
That word was: believe. It blew my mind that this alone would be the word that I was given to prophesy. Once again, I started to doubt and seriously reconsider writing or speaking the words I was hearing.
~ John Whitman
One of the artifices of Satan is, to induce men to believe that he does not exist.
~ John Wilkinson
The young men of this generation mock the words of age; it would be well if they mocked nothing else; but what can we expect of those who doubt all and believe nothing?
~ John William Polidori
He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question of such overwhelming simplicity that he had no means to face it. He found himself wondering if his life were worth the living; if it had ever been. It was a question, he suspected, that came to all men at one time or another; he wondered if it came to them with such impersonal force as it came to him. The
~ John Williams
unbelief is the evil that is conquered in a power encounter.
~ John Wimber
I told you all this so that you understand that if someone says that something is so, that does not prove that it is so.
~ John Wyndham
Living in a world where constantly one turned and touched incomprehension—they did not comprehend, he did not comprehend—gave the air the lift of uncertainty and this seemed to wear away something in him, always he felt unsure of what he wanted, what he thought, even what he felt. His
~ Elizabeth Strout
Durante años vivimos al galope —dijo Frances— y de pronto las dudas nos asaltan, el paisaje se ensombrece, nos sentimos perdidas y solas, y repentinamente tomamos conciencia de que tendremos que seguir avanzando a tientas porque ya no podemos volver sobre nuestros propios pasos.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
Muttering something, Tant raised his hands to the sky as he walked beside me. I wasn't sure if it was a prayer or curse, but I distinctly heard "Why me?
~ Elizabeth Vaughan
God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.
~ Elizabeth Wein
She whispered, 'C'etait la Verite?' Was that Verity? Or perhaps she just meant, Was that the truth? Was it true? Did any of it really happen? Were the last three hours real? 'Yes,' I whispered back. 'Oui. C'etait la verite.
~ Elizabeth Wein
I AM A COWARD.
~ Elizabeth Wein
Don't you ever do that to me." "You know you'll never make as much of a fool of yourself as Horatio Augustus. So I won't have to.
~ Elizabeth Wein
If she didn't go, she'd wonder
~ Elle James
now Dolly couldn't seem to stop herself from asking, Is this it? Is this my life?
~ Ellen Baker
Jim Bradley shook his head. Cathy didn't want to admit it, but he had the unmistakable look of someone who was in the right.
~ Ellen Datlow
Another common response is, "What if our marriage doesn't work out? I want to make sure I have some money of my own." We have a problem with that, too. If a woman is going into a marriage with thoughts of "what if it doesn't work out," how committed can she be? Her problem is not money, but commitment or love.
~ Ellen Fein
While God has given ample evidence for faith, He will never remove all excuse for unbelief. All who look for hooks to hang their doubts upon will find them. And those who refuse to accept and obey God's word until every objection has been removed, and there is no longer an opportunity for doubt, will never come to the light.—The Great Controversy, p. 527.
~ Ellen G. White