Quotes About Doubt

We have lost the courage to hope.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and reassert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

I say today, that we will have no end to the slavery agitation until it takes one turn or the other. I do not mean that when it takes a turn toward ultimate extinction it will be in a day, nor in a year, nor in two years. I do not suppose that in the most peaceful way ultimate extinction would occur in less than a hundred years at least; but that it will occur in the best way for both races, in God's own good time, I have no doubt.

I don't know if I love him. I'm not sure what love is, or if I'm qualified to make that proclamation.

The real question isn't "Why aren't you strong enough?" It's "Why do you keep doubting that you already are?

The real question isn't "Why aren't you strong enough?". It's "Why do you keep doubting that you already are?".

fear is nothing more than the absence of faith!

I could never be sure whether he would be there when I arrived. On my way through the forest I used to pass a large granite block where I would stop, draw my breath and close my fists with my thumbs inside, then close my eyes and whisper: 'Please, please, please let him be there today,' before continuing. If he wasn't, I felt it was because I had done wrong. That somehow I had to earn the right to such pleasure.

If God wanted us to believe in him, he'd exist.

Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?

I sensed it was finally safe to ask the question without seeming like an ingrate. God? Where were you? For 107 days where were you? Where were you in my unconsciousness and where were you in that hospital room when I wanted to feel your presence with fireworks and explosions of emotions and supernatural palpability? Where were you, God? [...] I was there, my child, [...] I was the peace, I was the breath, I was the comfort.

I know I'll never trust a single thing you say You knew your lies would divide us but you lied anyway And all the lies have got you floating up above us all But what goes up has got to fall

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.

Beware of what "everybody says".

He prizes ambiguity; he loves to keep you guessing.

Was our life together that unbearable?

For that matter, all this, is there a God? Corlis -- I don't care!" "Huh," I considered. "I guess I don't either". "Most people don't! All they care about," he added grimly, "is being right".

I wasn't sure. In those days I still held wholesomeness to be suspect.

It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.

I've got this image in my head of how I want my life to look, and I have absolutely no idea how to get there. And I'm so scared that I'll make some wrong decision - just one - and everything will get messed up and go wrong -for good.

an uneasy feeling that something was very, very wrong stuck with her.

A hug is not always the right answer, you know. But as she felt his arms around her, his warm breath against the crown of her head, she thought that it might not be an answer, but it was certainly better than yet another question.

But, what if it's not a mistake? What if it's true?" "Well then, my angel... you'll be a very rich woman indeed.