Quotes About Doubt

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

I've lost my faith in science.

Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief

Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about...Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings, who don't have all the answers, to think that they do.

An untested faith is an unreliable faith.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something. Only faith is sufficient.

In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.

So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.

When a scientist says he believes the Bible--that doesnt give me anymore more faith in the Bible that gives me more faith in the scientist.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

Faith is the path of least resistance.

It is easier for me to have faith in the Bible than to have faith in D.L. Moody, for Moody has failed me lots of times.

It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith.