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Quotes About Doubt

Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?
~ Sylvia Plath
It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god
~ Thom Yorke
Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either.
~ Timothy Keller
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
~ Victor Hugo
From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.
~ Walter Lang
I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.
~ David Jenkins
I would thank God, but I don't believe in it.
~ Eddie Vedder
I don't understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.
~ Emile M. Cioran
I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.
~ Ernestine Rose
Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.
~ George MacDonald
To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.
~ Gerhard Richter
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
~ H. L. Mencken
We corrupt the Word of God most dangerously, when we throw any doubt on the plenary inspiration of any part of Holy Scripture.
~ J. C. Ryle
The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?
~ Jim Bakker
I can't go around believing in a God that believes suffering is good for me.
~ John Maynard Smith
Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to find - which He ain't never.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.
~ Marcus Brigstocke
Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.
~ Marilynne Robinson
What if I have it all upside down? What if I'm the one who knows nothing of God, and the people in the world are actually interceding on my behalf with their ordinary daily struggles
~ Mark Salzman
If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith.
~ Martin Luther
I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ.
~ Martin Luther
I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.
~ Mignon McLaughlin