Quotes About Doubt

Is that your real name? Does it really matter? It makes me wonder what else is not real.

I don't trust anyone named Gavin.

Blair thinks about it for a moment and then says slowly, evenly, "If Cliff slept with Didi, then he must have slept with Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Raoul." "Who's Raoul?" Alana and Kim ask at the same time. I open my menu and pretend to read it, wondering if I slept with Raoul. Name seems familiar.

It turns out that the famous dictum, associated with Dostoevsky's Ivan Karamazov, can run both ways: yes, without God everything is theoretically permissible... but believers can find ways to use God to justify just about anything as well.

Acknowledging how little we know is, I think, at the core of mature faith. What we boast of as great faith may merely be a boatload of indoctrination and overconfidence.

There is a difference — subtle but very significant — between having faith in my faith (i.e., faith in my intellectual concepts about God — another way of saying "leaning on my own understanding") and having faith in God. There is a corresponding difference between doubting my faith and doubting God.

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. – Frederick Buechner

Yes, you can choose to say you believe something. But whether you actually and authentically do believe it is less choosable than it seems.

My arguments with my Inner Fundamentalist tend to end like this Ã¢â'¬Â¦ or not end. They just go on and on.

Actually, maybe the problem is not us. Maybe the problem is Christianity. Maybe the product doesn't perform according to its advertising. Maybe there's something wrong with the religion itself, at least in its current form.

I have a confession to make.121 Almost every time I tune in to religious radio or TV, I want to change my religion. I

We must, therefore, never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God—whether in prose or in poetry. Romano

I'm often asked if I have hope for Christianity. These days, I say, "My hope for Christianity depends on my hope for humanity, and we humans are not trending well." And in that realization, I find a compelling reason to stay Christian.

For some of us, faith is a fortress of certainty we will defend to the death. For others, faith is a prison to leave behind forever.

For Watts, then, while faith is unreserved openness to the truth—a refusal to reduce truth to what we already understand, beliefs are ideas we cling to because we wish they were true or want them to be true.

He had what we often lack — the maturity to see that faith isn't something you either have or don't have, but something that ebbs and flows in the life and soul of every individual. Doubt isn't the opposite of faith. It is an element of faith. Where there is absolute certainty, there can be no room for faith.

he encouraged them to explore their doubts, ask their questions, and express themselves honestly. Many people crave certainty. They don't want to have to think, agonize, or grapple with life's difficult questions for themselves. Instead they want dogma. They want guaranteed answers.

We hate those times of weakness, but I can see why life would be engineered to bring us to them; without them, we might never learn what faith is at all. Someone has said that you never know if your faith is real until it is all you have left.

we consider the religion a lost cause anyway).

An unexamined, status-quo Christianity is not worth perpetuating. I cannot and will not stay Christian if it means perpetuating Christianity's past history and current trajectory. The only way I can stay Christian is to do so as part of a creative movement forging a new kind of Christianity

Faith before doubt: it's about correct beliefs. Faith after doubt: it's about revolutionary love.

You're not going to arrest me or anything, are you?" "No.

know you may think I'm crazy, but I really don't know who we can trust.

Suspicions have a way of becoming "facts," even if they have no basis in truth.