Quotes About Doubt

These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in.

It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.

Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.

Behind each piece, animating every attempt, is the echo of a precarious faith, that we are more intimately bound to one another by our kindred doubts than our brave conclusions.

Fear that makes faith may break faith.

Whatever you believe, you need faith to get through the day.

Oh ye of little faith. Not for IYD... But you didn't even try.

I don't mind that people have questions and would look for someone to respond to their questions, particularly if their faith is not terribly well-known.

In a household of faith, there is no need to fear or doubt. Choose to live by faith and not fear.

"You don't have much faith in people, do you?" said David. "I don't have much faith in anything," Roland replied. "Not even in myself."

I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.

If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion.

I very rarely made any move to direct anything. I didn't have any faith in myself.

If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith.

Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.

I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?''None,' said Mrs. Halloran.

Doubt is an old disease. Faith is an old medicine. Compassion is an old doctor. Concern is an old nurse.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.

The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.

I have no faith in my ability to judge things.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

Never believe in any faith younger than you are.

The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.

The boundaries became constrictive in what I was doing, and if my faith grew, it was because I pressed some of the boundaries in ways I hadn't felt comfortable or responsible doing that before.