Quotes About Doubt

Presumption has many forms; and it is worth considering, whether a great and good Being would most disapprove the presumption which expected too much from His goodness, or the presumption which dared positively to disbelieve His promise.

He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

If the sun and moon should doubt, They'd immediately go out.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd.

He who doubts from what he seesWill ne'er believe, do what you please.If the sun and moon should doubtThey'd immediately go out.

Always consider the possibility that you may be wrong. Especially when you are absolutely certain you are right.

It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

What's the use of held note or a held line That cannot be assailed for reassurance?

He has no hope who never had a fear.

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

By thirteen, I'd mostly stopped believing in God, but that was a new development and it left a hole in my world, a feeling that I'd been abandoned. The ocean was like an uncaring god, endlessly dangerous, power beyond measure.

I continued to doubt. But I was not afraid. I just didn't want this to end.

Fleming doubted all this but he listened anyway and thought with a kind of sardonic amusement that before the night was over life itself might grasp him by the scruff of the neck and jerk him out of the doldrums he seemed grounded in and into its swifter currents.

By definition, any belief is something that sombody hopes is true; conversely, a disbelief is a hope that something is not true. Neither has anything whatever to do with the real truth, except to obscure it.

Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.

You can never trust what you read.

Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

our faith has been dangerously weakened—watered down by a blind and essentially false and cruel sentimentalism.

What Bernard saith of a hard heart I may say of an unbelieving heart, illud cor verè durum, quod non trepidat, ad nomen cordis duri—that is a hard heart indeed, saith he, that trembles not at the name of a hard heart.

They love truth flourishing, who do not love it when it is confuting. They dare handle and look on the sword with delight when in a rich scabbard, who would run away to see it drawn.

Our faith must not depend on our reason, but our reason on faith.

Say, as Austin in another case, 'Errare possum, hæreticus esse nolo—I may err, but I am re solved not to be a heretic.