Quotes About Doubt

between us. That night I prayed like a man trying to polish coal

her? I wonder. "Tom?" I say, taking advantage of

diffident voice. "You're not going to believe this.

Today, 75 percent of young people who grew up in Christian homes and churches are now abandoning their faith as young adults. More than one-third of millennials say they are unaffiliated with any faith, up 10 percentage points since 2007.

So he was FN-2187, well on his way to becoming the ideal First Order stormtrooper. That was what everyone thought, at least. Except FN-2187 himself.

He began to wonder if there was something wrong with him.

The problem had to be with him, FN-2187 thought. That was the only explanation. It was what everyone had been saying all along, after all. He was different. Maybe he was so different he was broken. So he would work to fix it, to be a real stormtrooper, to be one of them. That was, he thought, what he wanted most of all. Not to be alone.

Randy had an inkling that something else was afoot. Shelly's father appeared too eager to pass his daughter off to another man.

Hannah set down her paperwork. "That's complete bullshit.

It's hard to unbraid a life with a man that you believe in.

It's hard to unbraid a life with a man that you believe in.

I want to like Helen Flynn, but there might not be anything there to actually like.

She knows that what happened to her has altered her life in ways that are invisible, but though she chooses to think the best of people, she can't do that when it comes to her parents.

No one could possess a shred of doubt that Olalla's most famous institution was the sanitarium up on the heights off Orchard Avenue.

But, Kristen, the blood," he says, "I don't know how the blood got there." He glances at me, then back at his drink. He looks like he might cry. "Honey, you cut your finger at work," I say, though unconvincingly.

well, I don't think I'm equipped to raise our daughter.

Why did God even bother to create minds that naturally gauge their level of confidence in a belief on the evidence and arguments for and against it if he's only pleased with minds that can make themselves more certain than the evidence and arguments for it warrant? I just don't get it!

With Christianity, it seems, there is always the double-edged sword.

Logic said it was impossible but logic wasn't doing too well here lately, was it?

Still, he reminded himself, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that he exists. Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing we see is really there, as we think we are seeing it. Our eyes are liars. Everything that seems real, is merely part of the illusion.

His eyes flickered a tiny, hopeful smile in response, but doubt quickly smothered it.

Wenn man einem Mann zeigt, wie nichtig seine Hoffnung und sein Hoffen war, tötet man den hellen bejahenden Teil in ihm, der geliebt werden möchte.

I tried to sound confident and strong, but there are some lies that the body just won't believe, and the words came out as a squeak.