Quotes About Doubt

Doubting is biblical, historical, and normal for many Christians who are trying to follow God in their lifetimes. It takes courage to face uncertainty and to live with doubts that may never completely go away.

Faith has its reasons and reason has its faiths.

the problem is that many believe in Christ but do not truly know Him. Some even deny that there is a way to know Him, even through the dark glass of faith (see 1 Cor 13:12). This book is about knowing

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Maybe is not a theory, you know, it is merely maybe.

Hunt's wife, after all, had died in questionable circumstances,

Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever! Woe to him who even in the arms of some mistress who has just yielded to him maintains an awareness of trouble to come and foresees that he may later tear himself away!

Ignorance never settles a question.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly

On the whole, I wonder'd much how such a man came to be intrusted with so important a business as the conduct of a great army; but, having since seen more of the great world, and the means of obtaining, and motives for giving places, my wonder is diminished.

I began to suspect that this doctrine, tho' it might be true, was not very useful.

retaining only the habit of expressing myself in terms of modest diffidence; never using, when I advanced anything that may possibly be disputed, the words certainly, undoubtedly, or any others that give the air of positiveness to an opinion; but rather say, I conceive or apprehend a thing to be so and so; it appears to me, or I should think it so or so, for such and such reasons; or I imagine it to be so; or it is so, if I am not mistaken.

You must believe in God in spite of what the clergy say.

Maybe Virginia Woolf thought about going to the lighthouse, but I doubt she ever got there, or the novel might have ended differently.

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked.

A lot of people don't believe that Kirk-Heitkamp is a real reform bill.

In fact, when I first came to the Senate, people laughed. I had people telling me, 'There's no way you're going to get a comprehensive criminal justice reform bill done.'

As I am a seeker of truth, I refuse to believe in every bit of dogma as a fact.