Quotes About Doubt

This is the right thing to do, I tell myself. But I don't believe it. This is another one of my mother's crazy ideas. I feel sick to my stomach. I want to pull my hand away, but I don't. I keep walking. Good Moose. Obedient Moose. I always do what I'm supposed to do.

voice comes out high like a girl's. I never know whether I'm going to sound like Mickey Mouse or the giant on top of the beanstalk.

But trust them? Not on your life.

When I'm working I'm wishing I was doing nothing and when I'm doing nothing I'm wondering if I should be working. I hurry through what I've got to do and then, when I've got nothing to do, I keep glancing at the clock, wishing it was time to go out. Then, when I'm out, I'm wondering how long it will be before I'm back home.

It is not faithless to stand without faith, keeping open vigil at the site

They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation.

I have witnessed the pleasant result of producing a human who faithfully claims to be a Christian, but who on some fundamental level does not think Christianity actually works. And just one Christian of this type turns off dozens from trying out Christianity for themselves.

Trust is crazy. You are a risky, risky, God. I didn't sign up to be Amazing Trust Boy, and I did not sign up for Danger God. You're flatly not safe…

They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief.

Je le voie, mais je ne le crois pas.

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

that I think explains our own crisis of faith in a very clear way—it is not that you no longer believe in God, but rather that you no longer believe in yourself.

The same principles which at first view lead to scepticism, pursued to a certain point bring men back to common sense.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than saying a drunken man is happier than a sober man.

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

The utter absence of proof for a proposition is proof of a successful conspiracy to destroy all proof.

When in doubt and in need of information, find a snitch and squeeze him. That was one of the very few investigative techniques I was aware of. As a matter of fact, that and the annoy principals involved until the guilty party decides to kill you pretty much summed it up for me. Move over, Sherlock.

Why? Is the sight of my legs disturbing you, Derek?

If it feels wrong, it probably is.