Quotes About Doubt

Her faith is a mountain, and you, my son, haven't even got a shovel yet.

We can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I knew beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.

Who am I? This or the other? Am I one person today and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others, And before myself a contemptibly woebegone weakling? . . . Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine. Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am Thine!2 Bonhoeffer's question "Who am I?

Come here," he asks. The idea of making it while the churches are full excites him. "No," Ruth says. She is really a little sore. His believing in God grates against her.

He doesn't know, what to do, where to go, what will happen, the thought that he doesn't know seems to make him infinitely small and impossible to capture. Its smallness fills him like a vastness.

After only a few minutes of back-and-forth questions their arguments always unravel—yet their conviction remains. One lesson I've learned from these years of public engagements with Christian apologists is that the arguments they offer for their faith are not the reason they have faith.

Trusting is part of our higher nature. Doubting is a lower instinct. The latter is easy to do, the former more difficult—but so much more rewarding.

Waaal, there's some would call it a bush, I suppose, but I call it a tree. If I'm ever in doubt about how much credit to give a thing, I always give it more, to be on the safe side.

...I believe that doubts, honestly expressed and wrestled with, produce a faith that is stronger and more intimate than doubts suppressed under the veneer of faith.

If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.

To disbelieve is easy

A faith so weak that it is not sufficient unto itself but requires that others tiptoe around it for fear of hurting it, knows deep down that it is a lie.

Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know.

Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

As we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It's not that we don't want to, but too much has happened and we can't.

If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can't, choose their faith over your doubt.

Beware the unbelief of others. It's contagious!

I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil.

Mark 9:23 " 'if you can?'" said Jesus. "Everything is possible for him who believes." (NIV)

I read the bible every day and the one thing I have noticed is that those characters that are closest to God seem to be the ones who question and wonder and think more than others.

A complete atheist stands on the next-to-last upper step to the most complete faith (he may or may not take that step), while the indifferent one has no faith, apart from a bad fear.

Every agnostic has a minister, Mike. Otherwise, they's be atheists.

Its helpful to know the reasons for our faith...it helps us not be so vulnerable to doubt, and it helps us not be so vulnerable to false doctrine.

She never belittled him though she knew the strength of his doubts