Quotes About Doubt

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

If you don't want to believe me, you don't have to do anything about it.

God was there, and yet people believed they still had to go on looking, because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

Most human beings still cannot trust love.

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.

Never stop having doubts. If you ever do, it will be because you've stopped moving forward, and at that point, God will step in and pull the rug out from under your feet, because that is His way of controlling His chosen ones, by making sure they always follow their appointed path to the end. If, for any reason, we stop, whether out of complacency, laziness, or out of a mistaken belief that we know enough, He forces us on.

When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

MutluluÄŸun aÅŸk olduÄŸunu söylüyorlar.oysa aÅŸk mutluluk getirmez, hiçbir zaman da getirmemiÅŸtir. Tam tersine, sürekli bir kayg? durumudur aÅŸk, bir savaÅŸ meydan?d?r; kendi kendimize sürekli olarak acaba doÄŸru mu yap?yorum diye sorduÄŸumuz uykusuz gecelerdir.

Despite all my efforts, I still can't honestly say that I feel closer to God and to myself.

No one could make a choice without feeling afraid. That's was the law of life..and no one could escape.

Tienen miedo de realizar sus mayores sueños porque consideran que no los merecen, o no van a conseguirlos.

This is why they are warriors of the light. Because they err. Because they question. Because they seek a reason - and they will surely find it.

We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear

Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

Once I had an opportunity to talk with Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, about the fact that I was not able to do my practice properly. I had just started the vajrayana practices and I was supposed to be visualizing. I couldn't visualize anything. I tried and tried but there was just nothing at all; I felt like a fraud doing the practice because it didn't feel natural to me. (...). So he encouraged me by saying that as long as you have these kinds of doubts, your practice will be good.

The source of our unease is the unfulfillable longing for a lasting certainty and security, for something solid to hold on to.

We're all addicted to hope—hope that the doubt and mystery will go away. This addiction has a painful effect on society: a society based on lots of people addicted to getting ground under their feet is not a very compassionate place.

I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don't believe in?

Who can refute a sneer?

Our anger is a product of our insecurities.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)