Quotes About Doubt

But wasn't that love? Seeing what no one else could? And yet if it wasn't enough for her that she was beautiful to him, if she couldn't believe him . . .

this is no place for miracles

And of how we never really know someone, no matter how much we want to believe that we do.

Yes, she believed God loved her. But if this whole fiasco was His idea of love . . .

I understand Jesus perfectly," Mama tells me. "I just don't understand Christians, and I don't think he would either.

When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed

We don't know he's a shyster." "His name's Monte Carlo and he's from New Jersey. What else do we need to know?

I'm guessing I'm your fake girlfriend?" B. J. Asks, sighing. It's a miracle that he figured it out. He's not usually the best with things that aren't spelled out for him. "Of course, sweetie, " I say. I try not to think about the fact that I'm talking to B. J. Like we're in love. B. J. Is six-foot-four and 220 pounds. Not someone you want to think about being intimate with.

You want people to take it seriously, but most people are still going to act like it's just some dumb thing you're doing and ask you about it in the way people do when they don't think you're ever going to finish what you started.

You have to gooo," Lacey says. "She doesn't have to," Noah says. "If she can't handle it, she can't handle it.

I think the question is, can you live without her? Watch her fall in love with someone else?.....If the fear of some random thing happening in the future is bigger than the reality of her being with another guy, walk away now when it'll merely sort of kill you to do it. But you can't have this doubt between you. Man up. Love her the way she deserves it, or let another man do it.

Meanwhile, other people seem to be getting along with God just fine, very well indeed. Why not me?)

When you find that God is absent, you do many things. You temporize, for a while. You buy a new prayer book, hoping that perhaps some Celtic blessings might do the trick.

And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of my entire faith.

finally I say            all right, it is improbable, all right, there is no God. And then as if I'm focusing a magnifying glass on dry leaves, God blazes up. It's the attention, maybe, to what isn't            there that makes the notion flare like a forest fire until I have to spend the afternoon dragging the hose to put it out. . . .

Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And yet I continue to live in a world the way a religious person lives in the world; I keep living in a world that I know to be enchanted, and not left alone. I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.

The Devil is a lie.So don't go sharing them yourself.

I'm afraid that you're leaving me, so i'm leaving you first.

I'm always right. Except when I'm not.

I'm not denying that he's a terrific guy, but I'm not sure he's terrific for me.

After six months at sea, Magellan's ability to lead the armada was still in grave doubt.

Few among them had confidence that Magellan could lead them to the edge of the world and beyond

Nevertheless, he did not honor this promise. Just as Magellan feared

has even been suggested that Marco Polo never made it to China, despite his apparently firsthand descriptions of that region.