Quotes About Doubt

He needed so much to weep. All the distrust of life which misfortunes had brought to the little Värmland boy needed tears to wash it away. Distrust that love and joy, beauty and strength blossomed on the earth, distrust in himself, all must go, all did go, for it was Easter; the dead lived and the Spirit of Fasting would never again come into power.

Hon kunde aldrig hänge sig helt åt något. Om hon älskade, ja, vad hon än gjorde, stod liksom ena hälften av hennes jag och såg på med ett kallt hånlöje.

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

Doubt not without hoping, hope not without doubting (free after Seneca)

It is almost a cliche to speak of the professed atheist who cries out for help to God when he is in mortal danger. The profession of atheism is done by the conscious mind, but the subconscious still believes in God.

Isn't that always the way! Just when you really want to know if you did the right thing or not. But no one will ever answer that question for you.

If I were seriously interested in something important to me, I wouldn't just click on the first search result, read it and take it as God's word.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance.

The only certainty is that we shall never be certain.

She stood there for a moment, conflicted and confused. A victim of you and inexperience and a deep desire - a need- to believe that everything he was saying was, in fact, true.

Either I'm right," he continued, "and he doesn't exist, or you're right, and he's the kind of God who watches children die. The kind of God who sits around while men like Herod build palaces and good people starve. Either way, he's not worth worshipping.

je me demande... si cette armure n'est pas So. Alors je voudrais le demander à la girafe la prochaine fois.

Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.

Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent...?

I did pray. I kept on Praying. But prayer did nothing to alleviate their suffering.

The people who raised me will say that I am not religious. They are mistaken. What I am not is observant. But I am painfully, cripplingly, incurably, miserably religious, and I have watched lately, dumbfounded and distraught, as around the world, more and more people seem to be finding Gods, each one more hateful and bloodthirsty than the next, as I'm doing my best to lose Him. I'm failing miserably.

We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions.

she was tempted to give up on God because she couldn't reconcile her doctrine with her deity. She

I felt so thirsty for God, so embarrassed by Christianity, and so ready for something more.

Sometimes I was incredibly frustrated and angry, wondering how these extremes could exist in the same world, let alone in the same church. Sometimes I just got cynical. That was the easiest thing to feel, as cynicism takes very little energy.

I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said? .

A question like "do you love me?" was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch.

I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.

I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.