Quotes About Doubt

To know something, he argued, was not the same as to be certain beyond all doubt. And to believe something was definitely not the same as to know it.

We must stand firm between two kinds of madness: the belief that we can do anything; and the belief that we can do nothing.

We pose only those questions whose answers are the pre-given conditions of the questions themselves.

You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

This seems scientific and disarmingly undogmatic, but it ignores the fact that it is impossible to prove something doesn't exist.

If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts," said Francis Bacon, "but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Oh really? You're cold?

Was it too much to expect a future?

What were they thinking, those little German children? Did they see animals when they looked at us, or people? I wasn't so sure myself anymore.

Fergus's eyes went wide. "I don't believe it." "I know," Archie said. "This is huge!" "No," Fergus said. "I mean, I don't believe you hired the blinking Pinkertons!

But what if Darius really was messing with us? What if the clues he was feeding us were deliberate fakes? What if he knew he was in Arizona all along, and was dropping these clues to throw me off the scent, knowing I would be the one person in the world who would do anything I could to find him?

Dutt made a hissing sound. 'No doubt

But to doubt God and to question His motives causes our faith to shrink until literally we cease to be believers—we are believers in name, but not in practice or in action.

Perhaps your spirit is sour, cold, indifferent, and God asks what is wrong. He knows why you are like that, but He wants you to tell Him. He wants you to confess that you have feared and panicked, that you have questioned His purpose and plan for your life. You have doubted His Word and His promises, and you have failed to renew before God every day the anointing of His Spirit, so that you have become spiritually stale.

I want to make the issue crystal clear. There can be no possible doubt, according to the Word of God: either Jesus must be King, or He cannot be your Savior.

Maybe it was that Hamlet line he referenced, where he wrote about someone who was "protesting" too much.

William Cummings was right: there are no atheists in foxholes.

Cicero said 'So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.'

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

We know that there are no self-evident truths.

We are not waiting for a Godot, but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.