Quotes About Doubt

I could no longer reconcile my faith in God with the state of the world that I saw all around me.

Hawthorne, like most of my professors at Wheaton, was a committed evangelical Christian. But he was not afraid of asking questions of his faith. At the time, I took this as a sign of weakness (in fact, I thought I had nearly all the answers to the questions he asked); eventually I saw it as a real commitment to truth and as being willing to open oneself up to the possibility that one's views need to be revised in light of further knowledge and life experience.

I am shifting rivermist, not to be trusted.

I don't think anybody can ever be a hundred percent sure of anything in this wicked world, but I wanted to get up to ninety-eight.

She started to turn away, then turned back. She said: 'They did it [September 11] in the name of God, but there is no God. If there was a God, Mr. Staley, He would have struck all eighteen of them dead in their boarding lounges with their boarding passes in their hands, but no God did. They called for passengers to get on and those fucks just got right on.

you wondered why in the hell the world had been created in the first place. Good things were in short supply, and so much of the rest was downright rancid.

Thinking that if a person did begin considering supernatural possibilities, that person would no longer be able to think of himself as a completely sane person, and thinking about one's sanity was maybe not a good thing. It was like thinking about your heartbeat: if you had to go there, you might already be in trouble.

God says, Sure, take away the safety net. And when that's gone, take away the tight rope too.

There are no atheists in the foxholes, I've been told, and precious few agnostics in the Intensive Care ward.

Nothing was eternal, except maybe for the mind of God, and even at thirteen I had my doubts about that.

Could she lay hope to rest or did she have to carry it yet awhile longer?

The more you find, the wronger it gets.

as afirmações dos cínicos parecem sempre mais plausíveis do que as dos optimistas incorrigíveis.

We have come to a stream of blood. That it will lead us to a river of the same stuff I have no doubt. And, further along, to an ocean. In this world the graves yawn and none of the dead rest easy.

It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, 'what the hell did I want to jump over this stupid bar for?

While there is risk in trusting other people, there's far greater risk in not trusting them.

But we will trust you nonetheless. You are bitter, and bitterness is a sign of concern. I trust that.

Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once.

Pardon me that I have feared for you. Fear is born in doubt, and you have not merited my doubt.

You fear to be in need—and to have your need answered. As do I.

I don't know if You can hear me, Or if You're even there, I don't know if You will listen To a gypsy's prayer, Yes, I know I'm just an outcast, I shouldn't speak to You But still I see Your face and wonder Were You once an outcast too?

Hay dos tipos de personas que te van a decir que tú no puedes lograrlo: aquellos que tienen miedo de intentarlo y aquellos que tienen miedo que tengas éxito. RAY GOFORTH, ESCRITOR

For the record, I take no satisfaction in being right. For the record, I pray to God that I'm wrong. I'm not wrong...

Since childhood I'd been suspected of imagination