Quotes About Doubt

Look, Tad, you're quite sure that you have no idea, even in the back of your mind, where Bill could have been staying?" "I haven't got a back to my mind. I have just a small, narrow space in front where I keep all that's useful to me. A few telephone numbers and a prayer or two.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for 'South Park' fans.

The only possible outcome of double thinking is that you invariably end up negating whatever it was motivating you in the first place. Forcing yourself to think twice about something is just admitting that somehow you are instinctively stupid, and that repetition is the only thing that will save you from yourself.

Adrien, people get killed all the time. Since when is it your job to find out what happened to them?" "I'm not usually suspected of murdering them." "You have been as long as I've known you.

Why can't you say it?" I hardened my voice. "Because I'm telling you, you never have. I'd have remembered." He stared at me with disbelief. Then he lunged forward, pushing me flat in the pillows once more. He leaned over me, his mouth a brush of lips away from my own, his breath warm on my face. "Love you? Of course I love you. Baby, I fucking worship you.

What the hell are you doing?" I smiled, thinking how odd it was that he was the only person in the world I could say this to. "I'm scared." He was staring at me. "No way. I've never known anyone with more guts than you." "We're just not afraid of the same things.

a hotshot rising star on the force who figured he had all the answers—mostly because he had still not come across the really big questions.

Was floozy the kind of job that required good references? Matt doubted it, but he refrained from saying so.

You're not sure because you're feeling pretty stiff and achy, and

After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son.

My Lord and my God!' Thomas exclaimed." (John 20:26-28). Jesus accepted Thomas's acknowledgment of him as God. He rebuked Thomas for his unbelief but not for his worship.

William didn't believe in God, but he did believe in Bridget's love for God. It was a manifestation of her love of goodness, and William could believe in goodness. He saw it in her. He loved it in her. If

After breakfast I went back to bed, but for the longest time, I could not sleep. I stared at Clarice's shams and prayed and prayed and prayed. I had been raised to believe that prayer could move mountains, if only you had faith the size of a mustard seed. "Mountains be damned," I whispered to God. "I need a body moved.

She no longer lived in a world of speculation or recall and would take nothing on faith when the facts were but a few clicks away. It drove me nuts. I was sick to death of having as my dinner companions Wikipedia, About.com, IMDb, the Zagat guide, Time out New York, a hundred Tumblrs, the New York Times, and People magazine. Was there not some strange forgotten pleasure in reveling in our ignorance? Would we just be wrong?

She no longer lived in a world of speculation or recall and would take nothing on faith when the facts were but a few clicks away. It drove me nuts. I was sick to death of having as my dinner companions Wikipedia, About.com, IMDb, the Zagat guide, Time out New York, a hundred Tumblrs, the New York Times, and People magazine. Was there not some strange forgotten pleasure in reveling in our ignorance? Couldn't we just be wrong?

Our moral foundation is built on the fundamental law that God (if there is a God, which there is not) would not wish to be worshipped in the perverted and misconceived ways of human beings, with their righteous violence and prejudices and hypocrisies. Doubt, or cease being moral.

We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.

Well, that started me on the path out. I realized my religious tradition couldn't account for everything, not even everything sacred.

Perhaps God is unable to show us our way until we prove to Him that we truly want to follow it.

Do you have any idea how humiliated I am to be related to such a man, much less to have to call him father?" "Take comfort. Perhaps your mother strayed." "Oh,dearly would I like to believe that!

So too did any doubts about the involvement of Loki, god of mischief. That capricious deity was clearly up to his old tricks. How else to explain how a man who adored women-and who was adored by them-found himself with a bride who faced the marriage bed with less enthusiasm than she would a viper-infested den?

Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers.