Quotes About Doubt

Like investigation, healthy doubt arises from the urge to know what is true--it challenges assumptions or the status quo in service of healing and freedom. In contrast, unhealthy doubt arises from fear or aversion, and it questions one's own basic potential or worth, or the value of another.

Belief! That was always a big problem. Marxism as a surrogate religion with its prophets and popes. Look where it has got us. You believe? You have no right to believe. You must not believe…

I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

He no longer believed in ideals and stuff. He wished that he could kick out the beliefs he had held so dear all his life. Why should he bear the burden of these principles when all most people do is only touch their lips to the cup of wisdom but not take it into their hearts and minds? Why should he bother with being the only believer?

How did we end up here? My key works, but you won't let me in.

I know you're innocent, there is not one doubt in my mind, but I also know that you're not here.

What I know is this: they didn't believe me. Twelve people and not one of them took me at my word.

Dear Celestial, I am innocent.' 'Dear Roy, I am innocent, too.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Cómo podría recobrar la seguridad y el aplomo de mi juventud? El mundo es demasiado para nosotros. No sólo destruye nuestra juventud, sino nuestra certidumbre.

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

I'm not sure if I'm ready to have children. I asked a friend of mine who has children, "Suppose I do have kids. What if when they grow up they blame me for everything that's wrong with their lives?" She laughed and said "What do you mean if?

While each of us must find our own way forward through this forest of doubt, it is only with the support of others that we'll be able to do so.

What Gentzen had done was prove the obvious by assuming the doubtful.

He became an adult who—like so many others—viewed God's actions in the abstract until they impinged upon his own life.

I had obviously been a much worse father fourteen years ago than I'd thought; it would be tempting to conclude I had come further to reach where I currently was, but I couldn't trust my perceptions anymore. Did Nicole even have positive feelings about me now? I wasn't going to try using Remem to answer this question; I needed to go to the source.

Help me to know when it's appropriate to keep looking and when it's better to ignore my doubts. Let me always be inquisitive, but never be suspicious. Amen.

But what happened, it was almost as if I were a theologian proving that there was no God. Not just fearing it, but knowing it for a fact. [...] It's a feeling I can't convey to you. It was something that I believed deeply, implicitly, and it's not true, and I'm the one who demonstrated it.

But what if that's not true? What if"—his voice cracked—"what if God had no intentions about us at all?

Guide me toward the proper course of action, Lord. I recognize that my desire to seek answers, while necessary in scientific endeavors, is not always welcome outside of it. Help me to know when it's appropriate to keep looking and when it's better to ignore my doubts. Let me always be inquisitive, but never be suspicious. Amen.

If mathematical thinking is defective, where are we to find truth and certitude?

Of those who'd been devout before their loss, some struggled with the task of remaining so, while others gave up their devotion without a second glance. Of those who'd never been devout, some felt their position had been validated, while others were faced with the near impossible task of becoming devout now.

Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.

My mother] would tell me not to doubt God's understanding of His people, "Empty words and long praises do not impress Him. Show Him your faith by deeds, otherwise why should He believe you?