Quotes About Doubt

She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.

I no longer see a future. I've been told when I get older That I'll understand It all. But I'm not sure if I want to.

How will the world change if we do not question it?

I'm not brave,' Ava replied huskily. 'If you only knew how afraid I really am. Sometimes I think I am afraid of everything.' 'But isn't that what being brave is all about? Being afraid, but doing it anyway?

Do not believe too quickly!

Husbands adored you, too, at least at first. Being adored was something she had come to mistrust. She felt adoration to be a small and lovely-looking bomb that could blow up in your face at any time.

just because you're afraid doesn't actually mean there's anything to be afraid of.

I wish that I could thoroughly believe in some creed. I wish that I was ignorant enough to know one truth and discard all others.

Because I couldn't trust anything, especially not myself. How could I be lying there next to him with these snakes of doubt worming around in my heart? It was not honest.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

And I'm not going to lie, a little bit of me wanted to believe what I saw in advertising and in holiday movies.

I have spoken to God so rarely that I do not think he would know who I was.

But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.

Just because you don't believe it[] [...]doesn't mean that it's not true.

In his voice resonated the timbre of a man who thinks he has convinced himself of an idea, but masks his own doubt by laboring to persuade others.

if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.

Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death. The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: 'I am Who am.' The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: 'I am who am not.' Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side.

The formula "two and two make five" is not without its attractions.

The hesitations and doubts that are present at many points in modern theology do not in themselves indicate a deep and final uncertainty ... an alienation from the gospel.

We must not get caught up in an emotional reaction against such phrases as 'believing on authority' ... Everything depends on the character of the authority and the character of believing.

In properly organized groups no faith is required what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

No things could seem further apart than the doubt of grey and the decision of scarlet. Yet grey and red can mingle, as they do in the morning clouds...

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried.

The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.