Quotes About Doubt

Believe me; there's nothing clean, nothing healthy, nothing promising about this age of wonders - except the telling.

When Jesus raised Lazarus to life, the miracle was so spectacular many people believed in Jesus. However, some witnessed the same miracle and were motivated instead to betray Jesus (John 11:47–48). How could people witness such an event yet miss God's message? It was a matter of spiritual perception.

Religion? Yes, I know it well; I've heard its prayers and creeds, And seen men put them all to shame with poor, half-hearted deeds. They follow Christ, but far away; they wander and they doubt. I'll serve him in a better way, and live his precepts out.

Henry went down on one knee. 'Like King Arthur's knights,' Mr. Fogarty had told him, but he didn't feel much like a knight. In fact he felt like a twit.

But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. (Moby Dick; Chap 7 p36)

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow

For this is one of those disheartening instances where truth requires full as much bolstering as error.

Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but clouds sweep between--Is my journey's end coming?

Over Descartian vortices you hover.

There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.

A couple of years ago, right before I made 'Down to You,' there was a moment when I questioned what I was doing and if it meant anything. I felt like I wasn't accomplishing anything, that the goals I'd set were silly goals. Finally, I realized I just loved acting. It was a very clear moment, and my whole life changed then.

Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong.

I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.

I can scream and yell that I can still play, but unless I prove it, people will say, 'Yeah, Penny, whatever.'

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.

I cannot bet my life on it, because I was not involved, that Alex Rodriguez ever used steroids. But in my opinion, I suspect he has, yes.

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

I think about work all the time. I was in my bathroom yesterday and thought, 'I could never work again.' I don't have a job lined up right now - what if I never get another one?

If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?