Quotes About Doubt

It's like someone who prays every night saying God's a good listener. Just because you're talking to us doesn't mean we're listening. With me and God, you never really know.

Worry is absence of faith.

the exercise of authority was not an easy business, especially if those who exercised it no longer felt they had heaven on their side. That

The picture says that what we heard and were told in the newspapers, the media, was not the real story. There's enough doubt in the official story, where the stories were absolutely not consistent with what happened. They paint a different picture than the one that was given to the media.

was questioning one of the cardinal precepts of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

At first I resisted, feeling like a fool

This is eloquent but tentative, self-deceiving, and hedging the bet.

All serious travelers arrive at this doubting, why-bother juncture, stalling on the road, sometime or other.

That the female of the species was as cruel as, and more implacable than, the male, O had never doubted for a minute.

Then he took her, and it seemed to O that it had been so long since he had that, subconsciously, she realized she had begun to doubt whether he really desired her any longer, and in his act she saw proof of love.

a worrisome, uncertain love, one he was far from sure was requited, a love that acts not, for fear of offending.

you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.

Don't explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you

Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.

And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.

You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. " Chantal

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

No one could make a choice without feeling afraid.

Every man hath the right to doubt his task, and to forsake it from time to time; but what he must not do is forget it. Whoever doubteth not himself is unworthy-- for in his unquestioning belief in his ability, he commiteth the sin of pride. Blessed are they who go through moments of indecision.

I couldn't have found God in the seminary, he thought, as he looked at the sunrise.

I know how you must be feeling," she went on. "Sometimes we set off down a path simply because we don't believe in it. It's easy enough. All we have to do then is prove that it isn't the right path for us. However, when things start to happen, and the path does reveal itself to us, we become afraid of carrying on.

He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence.

As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.

When things start to happen, and the path does reveal itself to us, we become afraid of carrying on