Quotes About Doubt

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.

I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure he's done an extraordinary job of making a very cruel world.

I don't believe in God.

God bless... God damn.

The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)

This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.

No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

If you don't believe in God, I don't believe in you.

I honestly don't know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

The Pope doesn't believe in God; Did you ever see a conjurer who believed in Magic ?

We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.

You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground.

You wonder if God has a place for a person like you. Find your answer in the Bethlehem stable.

My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.

Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes, And he from the mighty doubter The great believer makes.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

Why is God making me suffer so much? Just because I don't believe in him?

What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?

I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.

It's not God that I don't accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

If God is all powerful, can He make a stone so big that He Himself can't lift it?