Quotes About Doubt

I've done that kind of stuff in records, where you start going back and you want to just redo everything, destroy everything, because you think it all sucks and you can do it better.

People will say, "there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather ask them to show me the route that leads to heaven or hell.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

The mind is either at war with God or it is being renewed. There is no middle ground.

The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

To tell the truth, I just lost confidence in Joe Hooker.

I don't care how much evidence the state presented. I've never for one moment believed he murdered that waitress.

Honey lamb, there are a lot of things in this world I feel insecure about. Religion. Our national economic policies. What color socks to wear with a blue suit. But I've got to tell you that my performance in that hotel room last night isn't one of them.

Then she looked again, and she wasn't so sure; in fact, she hadn't at any time been perfectly sure about Mrs. Peters. She had that shrinking manner, and yet her eyes looked as if they could see a long way into things.

Whatever was about, whoever I had seen, and heard rocking, and who had passed me by just now, whoever had opened the locked door was not 'real'. No. But what was 'real'? At that moment I began to doubt my own reality.

The Williamsburg Bridge — a structure that does not inspire confidence in the profession of civil engineering.

Sincere religious faith is both a relationship and a love affair. That is one of the many reasons atheism is not a religion.

Suspicion, like bread, rises rapidly in a warm environment.

God's not going to answer all my questions...and maybe He doesn't need to. Maybe it's enough that He saved us...and He's still saving us.

And I realized that God hadn't abandoned me. I'd simply stopped trusting him. I thought my life had to be one way to be happy—but maybe . . ." He shook his head. "Maybe there is more for me. For us.

You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened...

People who say everything happens for a reason usually say that only when they agree with the reason.

Terrible things can happen to you that leave you unable to risk trusting the world with what you love; I know this better than anyone.

I sat there thinking that if God could split an entire sea in half so a million Hebrews could walk across dry land, couldn't he stop a little germ?

People will always distrust what they don't understand.

Later she would learn that a mistrust of one's senses was a normal reaction to situations like this. Though the body is alerted and absolutely certain about what is happening, the brain might try to find a way to reason out of it. Was there a word for disbelief in one's own sense.

Nietzsche turned the question into a cornerstone of his philosophy. His Twilight of the Idols states: 'In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is Worthless Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Everywhere and always their mouths have uttered the same sound – a sound full of doubt, full of melancholy, full of weariness with life, full of opposition to life' (p. 29).