Quotes About Doubt

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

You know, for a long time I became almost atheist. I believed in nothing. And it was tough for me to believe in anything at all because I had believed so strongly. And I divorced myself of spirituality, I think.

I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity.

I no longer believe that I'm going to be struck down by a punishing God.

I pray in my own way, not regularly, and I wouldn't say structured prayers. What I'm praying to I'm not sure. I'd be a firm agnostic.

While I was raised around churches and had gotten to know a few preachers fairly well, the thought never entered my head that I would one day stand and deliver. Not only was I not interested, I lived with a major struggle: I stuttered.

When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us.

I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

I am a Christian guy. I've struggled with that; I have struggled with everything.

In college, I was failing almost every class I was taking my freshman year. I was having difficulty in managing my time; I was just overwhelmed. Even though I knew I was smart and knew I was good enough, at that point, I doubted all of it because I struggled to handle my sport, classes and social life all at once.

Personally, I've struggled with a lot of doubt in myself at times.

Sometimes I feel like those born-again folk, always working on their faith, but I'm always working on my atheism. We all have our struggles.

It's all the stuff I've been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.

Am I crazy? My opponents say I am, but I disagree.

Chandler, just like myself, has spent most of his career in Bellator and he spent his entire time as a top fighter with people doubting his skills, his opponents and his results. He claimed he was No. 1. I relate to him.

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.

I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

I am an optimist even though I am told everything I do is negative and cynical.