Quotes About Doubt

And what happens when we do better? Does the doubt go away? Of course not; we just doubt things on an entirely new level. So we keep trying. And the bigger the doubts, the harder we try.

She reached up over Jesus' ecstatic, smug, "I-can-walk-on-water-and-you-can't" face and yanked the door open.

Who's to say what's tied to all this?" Gab asked. "What's natural and what's not? If it's real then it's part of the reality.

Don said, "By any chance did someone come in to confess while I was out, and just maybe you forgot to mention it?" Corrine said no one had.

We know we are all tarnished, so we doubt everyone else too. It is sad situation, where we need a leader but cannot really trust anyone.

If it is too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true.

We have no hope if we cannot prove uncle cynic wrong.

Hello, Madhav,' Mr Somani said. He shook my hand in an extra-friendly way, as if to compensate for the doubts of a few seconds ago.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.

The art of scorn has fallen sadly into disrepute in these later days. Scorn fares hardly in an age of doubt and democracy. I can rarely feel it myself; but as it came rolling out of the old Cap'n that morning, I'll admit there was something grand about it.

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.

Criminal Minds, Believer: "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

Impossibility is more possible than everything which we hold to be possible.

I don't think it's a healthy thing in your personal life to go around with that never-sure attitude.

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.

it suddenly hit him, almost like a blow in the face, how silly it was to be singing about safety and still to be afraid of every whisper in the undergrowth. If he really was safe in Jesus' arms, what was there to be afraid of?

People do not like to have their word doubted or to have their love constantly tested. When such a situation continues for a long period of time, the partner becomes angry. No matter what he/she does, it is not enough.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure.

I am suspicious of all the things that the average people believes.

Both sides had more confidence in their opponents' weaknesses than their own strength.

Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!

Merely to ask, "Is that true? Do I and my hearers believe that?" does not produce instant answers. But failing to contend with those basic questions means we will speak only to those who are already committed.