Quotes About Doubt

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Today secular faith is ebbing, and it is the apostles of unbelief who are left stranded on the beach.

Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

Where faith begins, anxiety ends; where anxiety begins, faith end.

Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding.

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.

If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.

The inspiration and authority of the Bible is the bedrock upon which our faith is built. Without it, we are doomed to uncertainty, doubt, and a hopeless groping in the darkness of human speculation.

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.

Once one has rejected faith, it will become impossible for him to enter the gates of Heaven.

If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.

Faith makes you stable and steady. It brings out the totality in you. Consolidation of your energy is faith. Dissemination of energy is doubt.

We all have in our hearts some areas of unbelief. Let us say to the Lord: I believe! Help my unbelief.