Quotes About Doubt

I'M NOT buying it, Daniel.

If Helene was with child, either Basile Auger had astonishing ejaculatory capabilities, impregnating her from halfway around the world, or she'd lain with another man.

But disbelief wasn't enough to wound someone. Disbelief only hurt when someone wanted to believe.

if Lena hadn't already given up on old ideals of faith and God's goodness, she might've even wondered if Moira could possibly be an angel in disguise.

Doctor Ambrosius smiled slightly. You and all the others here, are-or rather, one day will be-magicians. Spirit broke into a disbelieving laugh. Right, she said, starting to stand up. Mean, she could deal with; crazy was something else. Thank you, Professor Dumbledore. I hope the train hasn't left yet, because-

but with the intensity of a twelve-year-old I turned in fury against a God who could treat us that way.

Come on! You must have at least suspected there was someone else, he said. Couldn't you smell her on his pants?

Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but allow only faith to drop anchor.

Self-doubt can be crushing, and sometimes it is hard to see outside the black bubble.

Cynicism is the greatest barrier to love. It is rooted in doubt and despair. Fear intensifies our doubt. It paralyzes. Faith and hope allow us to let go. Fear stands in the way of love.

Cynicism is the greatest barrier to love. It is rooted in doubt and despair. Fear intensifies our doubt. It paralyzes. Faith and hope allow us to let fear go. Fear stands in the way of love.

How can a priest be a scientist?

People like mystery. They want nothing explained, because when things are explained then there is no hope left. I have seen folk dying and known there is nothing to be done, and I am asked to go because the priest will soon arrive with his dish covered by a cloth, and everyone prays for a miracle. It never happens. And the person dies and I get blamed, not God or the priest, but I!

I have kept the faith, Planchard. -Then you are the only man who has Planchard said, and it is an heretical faith. -They crucified Christ for heresy Vexille said, so to be named a heretic is to be one with Him.

It seemed an unassailable logic to me. What was the point of worshipping a god if he did not help you?

an arena where, so Merewalh's priest told me, Christians had been fed to wild beasts. Some things are just too good to be true and so I was not sure I believed him.

grumbled. "You can say it. You're a Catholic?" "Christ, I haven't seen a church in ten years," Harper said. "I doubt God listens to me." "He doesn't even know I exist. I wonder if Dan prayed?

Priests have never been great men for the truth

Who are you, Yakov, Moses himself? If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. 'When prayers go up blessings descend.'" "Scorpions descend, hail, fire, sharp rocks, excrement. For that I don't need God's help, the Russians are enough.

How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

They could not all be right. At least, some had to be more right than others. Or less wrong.

Why should we doubt the evidence of dreams? for what is our life, occupied as it is with vain and fleeting imaginations, other than a prolonged vision of the night?

I knew none of it then - if indeed I know any of it now and am not just making patterns in the air.

When did you know you were going to be a writer? I knew it when I was young, I forgot it in my 30ties, then I remembered it again.