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Quotes About Doubt

Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.
~ Wilson Mizner
Technologists practice faith too; 'Faith that problems have solutions before having the knowledge to solve them.'
~ Barry Commoner
Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand.
~ Richard L. Evans
Faith in faith is faith astray.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms.
~ Christian Scriver
In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.
~ Paul Tillich
if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.
~ Frederick Buechner
The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?
~ Jean Racine
I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship
~ Forrest Gander
There can be no faith without risk.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I have more faith in my bra than I have in my accountant.
~ Laurie Notaro
To have great faith is to have great power, because your intent, your will, is undivided. When your word isn't dissipated by doubt, the power of your word becomes even stronger.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
The one who has real Faith doesn't need to believe.
~ Samael Aun Weor
Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.
~ Mason Cooley
I'm always very self-conscious and assume the way faith or religion might come up in my plays will seem very harsh to people of faith, or who are currently practicing.
~ Stephen Karam
Faith is intellectual laziness.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I have no faith in political arithmetic.
~ Adam Smith
I have a confession: I have no faith.
~ Zach Anner
The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
~ Unknown
Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.
~ Timothy Keller
This story is not and never was meant to challenge anyone's faith; however, if one's faith can be shaken by stories in a humorous novel, one may have a bit more praying to do.
~ Christopher Moore
If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?
~ Rob Bell
We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.
~ Mason Cooley