Quotes About Doubt

is this?" Wally growled angrily. "Why is everybody

Of the five in their gang, there was no doubt in Denny's mind that Trey was

After hanging around for three days, David could tell that the ADG team was not pleased with their testing.

the most awkward and least convincing coronation day in French history.

Cecil's minute is too good to be true. It is almost certainly misleading.

As soon as he had trawled through the confession, he must have realized how flimsy

believing that whatever else she did, she would be surrounded by treachery and deceit.

Mary was betrayed by her own family, who failed to give her the benefit of the doubt.

we no longer believe in God, but hope nevertheless for miracles—though

Now, ordinarily, when we say we know something, we can give compelling reasons for it. But when a philosopher says he knows he is holding his hand in front of him, he can give no reason that is as certain as the very thing it is meant to be a reason for. My having two hands is not less certain before I have looked at them than afterwards.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

You said you couldn't believe in anyone who didn't believe in you. I believed in you. You just didn't believe in me.

there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

If I had to be anything, he told her, I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.

If you don't feel you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then what you're doing probably isn't very vital. If you don't feel that you are writing somewhat over your head, why do it? If you don't have some doubt of your authority to tell this story, then you're not trying to tell enough.

Mr. Merrill was most appealing because he reassured us that doubt was the essence of faith, and not faith's opposite.

But Lupe both genuinely worshiped Our Lady of Guadalupe and fiercely doubted her; Lupe's doubt was borne by the child's judgmental sense that Guadalupe had submitted to the Virgin Mary—that Guadalupe was complicitous in allowing Mother Mary to be in control.

If you want to worry about something, you ought to worry about how Guadalupe was looking at you. Like she's still making up her mind about you. Guadalupe hasn't decided about you," the clairvoyant child had told him.

As often as I feel certain that God exists, I feel as often at a loss to say what difference it makes—that He exists—or even: that to believe in God, which I do, raises more questions than it presents answers. Thus, when I am feeling my most faithful, I also feel full of a few hard questions that I would like to put to God—I mean, critical questions of the How-Can-He, How-Could-He, How-Dare-You variety.

It was best not to ask Pepe if reading or Jesus had saved him, or which one had saved him more.

But miracles don't c-c-c-cause belief—real miracles don't m-m-m-make faith out of thin air; you have to already have faith in order to believe in real miracles.

Richard Abbott, who I thought knew everything, answered: "I don't know, exactly.

Pour Juan Diego, des morts ou des fantômes auraient dû avoir une toute autre attitude, surtout dans une église. Que venaient-ils chercher ? Ne connaissaient-ils pas les réponses désormais ?

IF SOME PREACHER'S AN ASSHOLE, THAT'S NOT PROOF THAT GOD DOESN'T EXIST! (page 286)