Quotes About Doubt

What I don't think has been talked about is the fact that in order to be Hell, the people in Hell could never be sure they were really there.

He thought he might as well. There's really only one question. What's that? Did God really kill Himself? Leanna wasn't smiling now. She was staring at him, but softly. Who are you? she asked him. Whatever she meant by the question, he didn't want to answer it. He wiped his face with his napkin, and in reference to the warmth of the place said, Man.

God, what is going on? Why are You leaving me with the one man who has the power to break me?

My uncle's death confirmed a suspicion of mine that madness and religion were a hair's breadth away.

She had the air of someone clinging to a wall of soap.

Chuck said, Fuck if I know. Cawley stepped up beside them. Quite similar to our clinical conclusion.

She would rather have known the lie that was Brian than the truth of anything else in her life.

Me, either. What

How long since she yearned? How long since she dared believe something so foolish as the idea that someone anywhere has the answers to questions she can't even put into words?

Non sono pazza. Non lo sono. Certo, cos'altro direbbe una pazza? E' questo l'aspetto geniale della situazione. L'aspetto kafkiano. Se non sei pazza ma la gente ha detto a tutti che lo sei, allora qualsiasi affermazione contraria da parte tua non farà che rafforzare quella tesi. Capisce cosa intendo?

Charming as he was, you never felt fully comfortable with the guy, because he never seemed fully comfortable with himself.

A faith based on miracles will quickly fade, dependent on the next miracle. Such an attitude cannot even be called faith.

I know I'll never find anyone who makes me feel the way he does. I can't believe I've gotten in so deep, so soon. I mean, this shouldn't' be such a big deal; we haven't even slept together, for chrissake. I can't help but wonder, once again, if I'm dodging the bullet or losing the love of my life.

One way not to receive an answer to a petition is to go on praying for it. Some people pray themselves into faith and then pray themselves out of faith.

There is no simple answer to such a question

When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say I will shut up, I can't.

One of the most blasphemous consequences of injustice, especially racist injustice, is that it can make a child of God doubt that he or she is a child of God.

Aye, I believe ye, Sassenach. But it would ha' been a good deal easier if you'd only been a witch.

It isn't necessarily easier if you know what it is you're meant to do-- but at least you don't waste time in questioning or doubting. If you're honest--well, that isn't necessarily easier, either. Though I suppose if you're honest with yourself and know what you are, at least you're less likely to feel that you've wasted your life, doing the wrong thing.

If ye have to ask yourself if you're in love, laddie—then ye aren't

Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some feeling that there is something larger - and there really has to be, because plainly you aren't sufficient to the situation.

Ian—is that by chance Ian Murray?" Grey asked, but then answered himself. "I suppose it must be; how many Mohawks can there be named Ian?

Put your trust in God, and pray for guidance. And when in doubt, eat." A Franciscan monk had once given me that advice, and on the whole, I had found it useful.

At the best of times, Father Bain's face resembled a clenched fist.