Quotes About Doubt

Faith, even when profound, is never complete. It has to be endlessly sustained or, at least, preserved from destruction.

You might think that there's some authority you could look for to answers, but all of the authorities you can think of are fake.

You might think that there's some authority you could look to for answers, but all of the authorities you can think of are fake.

Les grandes personnes, établies dans mon âme, montraient du doigt mon étoile; je ne la voyais pas mais je voyais le doigt, je croyais en elles qui prétendaient croire en moi.

Always I'm feeling, 'You're never going to work again.' That's going to happen one day, but I hope I'm not alive.

it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.

Like all great theologies, Bill [O'Reilly]'s can be boiled down to one sentence: There must be a god, because I don't know how things work.

I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm.

His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks. "I still don't understand," he says softly, "how she knew that it would work.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

You never know, until you put a play up for an audience, whether it's going to work. Things you think will work don't, and things you're not sure about work really well.

It is so much hard work writing your first novel. You're not even sure that it is possible to do.

Do any of us know how we're actually doing? Whether or not all the hard work and good intentions are paying off?

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!

people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.

The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.

I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.

No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work

I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.