Quotes About Doubt

If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?

God save us from half the people who think they're doing God's work.

If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.

Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art) is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Fear is faith that it won't work.

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

You have to have doubts. I have collaborators I work with. I listen and then I decide. That's how it works.

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people's minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines democracy. Then you're doing the work of our adversaries for them.

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

Most saints live to regret their career choice.

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work