Quotes About Doubt

I want to remember exactly what she said, but someone reading this does not mind if it is not exact: Please, says that someone, just choose one or the other and get on with the story. Give me fiction, if you have to—the approximation. Not the truth, along with your doubt.

But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it. So I still act as though my feelings were the center of everything, and they still cause me to end up alone by the living-room window late at night.

Can't you agree with me about anything?" asks the Grouch. Old Mother has to admit it: she almost always disagrees with him. Even if she agrees with most of what he is saying, there will be some small part of it she disagrees with. When she does agree with him, she suspects her own motives: she may agree with him only so that at some future time she will be able to remind him that she does sometimes agree with him.

But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it.

A melhor maneira para seguir não acreditando em nada é nos cercarmos de padres e freiras que acreditam demais.

A bad God is worse than no God at all.

But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?

Seasons of life can make a big difference. Sometimes people are great believers while in college, but when they're young parents with their second baby and they're working sixty or eighty hours a week and their wife's sick all the time and the boss is on their back-they simply don't have time to reflect. And I don't think faith can develop without some contemplative time. If they don't make room for that, their faith is not going to grow and doubts will creep in.

Faith is not always about having positive emotional feelings toward God or life.

Yes, of course Yahweh could defeat all of Judah's enemies." "Then why didn't He, Grandpa?" Zechariah's face looked sad as he shook his head. "Because our nation no longer believes in Him... and so no one bothered to ask Him to.

I do not believe in witches, but if I did, I'd swear you are one.

We show our faith in God when we keep moving forward even when our prayers aren't being answered. It's the highest form of praise to keep believing that God is good even when it doesn't seem that way.

The journey has been a parody of my life recently: rushing, waiting, wandering, feeling lost and losing sleep, wondering if I'm getting anywhere.

Then rely on your judgment and forget all this." Zechariah scooped up the scroll with a sweep of his hand. "But don't try to do both. It won't work. Either your faith in God is absolute, or it's worthless. There's no way to compromise.

His questions will make his faith stronger in the end.

It's the highest form of praise," Abba had said, "to keep believing that God is good even when it doesn't seem that way.

Yahweh never promised that your life would be without problems. But meditate on what He has promised. Let it be your strength. God will never leave you or forsake you. He commands you not to be afraid, so to be fearful is to doubt God. And that is a sin.

Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift...

The one thing that was one hundred percent assured was that nothing was one hundred percent assured

SECRET #14 Sometimes you shouldn't be so sure of what you think you're sure of.

God, I want you,' he breathed, and Bernadette's throat closed, trapping her breath, while every last ounce of strength drained out of her and left her with knees turned suddenly to rubber. 'I've never said that to a nun before,' he mused wryly. 'But then I've never met a nun like you. I doubt anyone has. What business has a woman Like you got being a nun, for the love of God!

Things aren't always as they seem. But then, sometimes they're exactly as they seem.

After that, of course, though he recovered later, nobody was about to believe any tales he had to tell about little live men.

My heart struggles to make peace between God's ability to change hard things and His apparent decision not to change them for me.