Quotes About Doubt

The believer will fight another believer over a shade of difference; the doubter fights only with himself.

She wasn't religious. She didn't believe in heaven or hell, only in ghosts, Ouija boards, tables which rapped and little inept voices speaking plaintively of flowers

You can be certain of what you've done, you can judge death, but to save a man – that takes more than six years of training, and in the end you can never be quite sure that it was you who saved him.

With goodness one can feel secure; why wasn't I satisfied with goodness, why did I always ask her the wrong questions?

You don't believe in Him, do you?' 'No.' 'Things to me wouldn't make sense without Him.' 'They don't make sense to me with him.

But what are you supposed to love, then, in the bitch and the fake? Where do you find that immortal soul they talk about? Where do you see this lovely thing in me—in me, of all people? [...] Tell me, God, and I'll set about robbing you of it forever.

If you don't see misery you don't believe in it

Disbelief could be a product of hysteria just as much as belief.

When we get to the end of human beings we have to delude ourselves into a belief in God.

Graham Greene

It was as if she were accumulating evidence that she had friends like other people.

So much of the war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth starting even a train of thought.

Perhaps as sects multiply, belief diminishes.

I suppose in all lives a moment comes when we wonder--suppose after all there is a God, suppose the theologians are right.

if you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

In his quieter, darker moments, Lemuel would often wonder if the Imperium was really as enlightened as it claimed.

And she supposed—the furrowed face would bloom again—that it was a very common human predicament. To be at a loss, not to know what to do with yourself.

According to legend, Path Kethona was first visited by Forerunners during our greatest period of exploration, over ten million years ago. Yet there was substantial doubt that voyage had ever happened. Records had long ago vanished. Not even Haruspis, entrusted with studying the Domain, could access those memories.

Explain it to me. God says he loves me but dumps me into a world of pain. You, so full of hate, so ignorant, he leaves alone. Self-righteous bigots he doesn't even touch. Explain that to me!

Trust yourself, because as Oprah says, doubt means don't every time

A good indication that it's not is if you're only staying with What's His Name because you're scared.

The harsh reality is that even if you have everything else in common, the one thing you don't have in common is the belief that this relationship can work.

elbowed Danny. "You think Shields is the father of that baby?