Quotes About Doubt

It's not the bad people who are brave I fear, it's the good people who are afraid.

God wouldn't exist just because she forced herself to believe, any more than Cade would be all right just because she wanted him to be.

Believing in God had to do with a system of convictions, deep faith, things that her parents and her sister and Jonathan had, things that had never come easily to Blair.

she had wondered if any of his Christianity was true. Had it all been a cover? A way to network and look honest? Or had he truly loved Jesus, but found ways to compartmentalize the sin in his life as so many others did?

Do not be so quick to accept as truth what is only conjecture.

Either you believed in something or you didn't—you couldn't have it both ways and be honest with yourself.

Morning followed night, as it always does, but Ben awoke questioning the assumption that it necessarily must.

Think about it. Think how it works. We deceive ourselves far more easily than others deceive us. Our false perceptions betray us. Our fears and doubts worm their way into our subconscious and cause us to believe what isn't necessarily true but becomes true through our own fixation on the possibilities.

Why do I think that you're going to be the death of me?

I don't think any of us wanted most of what's been given to us these past few weeks. We didn't want any of it to happen. But it has. I think I understand what that means. It means we must exercise grace in the face of fear and doubt and loss of belief. It means we must understand that this is how life works ? that it challenges us; it tests us. It gives us burdens to bear, and the measure of who we are is how we manage those burdens.

Sometimes faith in something is all you have.

Sometimes things feel real when they aren't. It might all just be nonsense you've persuaded yourself is something more.

Just like always, men are their own worst enemies.

Your belief is as important as your physical strength. You need to believe in yourself and in your weapon both. Doubt is the enemy. Hesitation is potentially fatal." Sebec

They were left to wait, cocooned in a vacuum of fear and doubt, of non-information and empty hope.

They want so hard to believe in what they've been taught that they find ways to rationalize things they wouldn't stand for otherwise. They need to keep their

faith intact or risk losing it. No one likes letting go of what they have always believed, even when they know it's right to do so.

They are much more concerned about not doing the wrong thing than doing the right.

Macbeth as a whole is awash with questions, sometimes questions responded to by another question, which helps to generate an atmosphere of uncertainty, anxiety and paranoid suspicion.

Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.

Wizards first Rule: People will believe a lie because they want it to be true or because they're afraid it MIGHT be true

As with all truth, there would be those who refused to believe it and would not even look at the proof.

What are you babbling about?" one of the other Sisters asked, not concerned with what they saw as a dusty aphorism.

I am sorry, Richard Cypher. I do not know the answers that would save you. If I did, please believe I would give them eagerly. But I know the good in you. I believe in you. I do know that you have within you what you must to succeed. There will be times when you doubt yourself. Do not give up. Remember then that I believe in you, that I know you can accomplish what you must. You are a rare person, Richard Cypher. Believe in yourself. And protect Kahlan.