Quotes About Doubt

The faith that had sustained them through their middle years had gotten as tight as their old clothes. Their views of God, scripture, the church, and the world were all under renovation.

AS IMPORTANT AS IT IS to mark the places where we meet God, I worry about what happens when we build a house for God.

Why, Sandilands? Why?

The question was whether James would love me if I was someone else.

She shifted in her chair, eyeing her front door with trepidation as she began to wonder if something might be wrong. What if he'd been hurt somewhere—if he'd been in an automobile accident or, more bizarre but nonetheless

She sighed as he left, wondering why it was becoming so difficult to tell the good guys from the bad guys.

I told her that's exactly how I felt, but I didn't know

I felt for the first time, maybe ever, how much harder it was to be the adults. And I wasn't sure I could do that when it was my turn.

Sometimes out here, people swear to prove they're not scared.

Everybody thinks my sister is an angel straight down from heaven, but I know better.

Marriage isn't necessarily the answer to all one's problems,' said Viola evasively, from which Dulcie concluded that he had not yet proposed to her.

By doubting we come to inquire and by inquiring we percieve the truth

Once the divinity of doctrine has been questioned there is no return to perfect faith.

No one is so sure of his premises as the man who knows too little.

No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.

In this atmosphere of doubt why was the extreme risk approved? Partly because exasperation at the failure of all her efforts at intimidation had led to an all-or-nothing state of mind and a helpless yielding like Bethmann's by the civilians to the military.

Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present.

The claim of the Church to spiritual leadership could never be made wholly credible to all its communicants when it was founded in material wealth. The more riches the Church amassed, the more visible and disturbing became the flaw; nor could it ever be resolved, but continued to renew doubt and dissent in every century.

That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages. The claim of the Church to spiritual leadership could never be made wholly credible to all its communicants when it was founded in material wealth. The more riches the Church amassed, the more visible and disturbing became the flaw; nor could it ever be resolved, but continued to renew doubt and dissent in every century.

But once divinity of doctrine has been questioned there is no return to perfect faith.

I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

Hitherto Christianity has leaned, or has been represented as leaning, on authority--on the authority of an infallible text, or of an inerrable Church. The inadequacy of either support has been repeatedly demonstrated, and as the props have been withdrawn, the faith of many has fallen with a crash.

Try not to forget that, no matter how certain, you might be wrong.

When you change your focus from limitations to boundless possibilities, from doubt and fear to love and confidence, you open your world in entirely new ways. You stop worrying about fixing what's wrong with you and start living from all that's right within you.