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Quotes About Doubt

This I believe: I believe there is no God.
~ Penn Jillette
Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the faith to believe that God listens.
~ Philip Yancey
For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.
~ Rickie Lee Jones
Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee.
~ Ronald Knox
Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.
~ Saint Augustine
Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.
~ Saint Augustine
To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
~ Samuel Butler
What is God trying to tell me? ... I'm just so tired. Why are people sabotaging me? Why, when I try to do something right, do people get angry?
~ Spencer Haywood
My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
You can't get through seminary and come out believing in God!
~ Daniel Dennett
There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.
~ Penn Jillette
I'd rather have all my questions unanswered and walk with God than not walk with God and have all my questions answered.
~ Rick Warren
No matter how much I prove and prod, I cannot quite believe in God; But oh, I hope to God that He, Unswervingly believes in me.
~ Yip Harburg
I think a lot of people are afraid the truth is in conflict with God. And are unable to let go and let the truth of the world.
~ Andrew Sullivan
God is only mocked by believers.
~ Anne Sexton
There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.
~ Arthur Miller
Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.
~ Bill Watterson
Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.
~ Ted Nelson
Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.
~ Tony Campolo
We exist within the question of God.
~ William Barrett
Am I really a person who lives by faith? God can surely tell the difference between someone who walks in darkness and someone who walks with her eyes shut. Which am I?
~ Mark Salzman
Before me is the abyss. How can I leap across it? And if I do not leap, how shall I ever be able to reach God?
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
I don't personally have enough faith to be an atheist.
~ Rick Warren