Quotes About Doubt

Symbols are the things we look at because they can be a doorway into another world. We very much go by sense, feeling the way as we go, but my maxim on that occasion was: if in doubt, throw it out. Some of the books mentioned ley lines. There was another called Satanic Rites of the High Priests. These doorways had to be closed off.

Charles Darwin himself recognized this problem and feared it when he wrote hauntingly: "Within me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of a man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy."40 The problem being, of course, that Darwin's theory itself was the conviction of man's mind, and thus by his own logic, he couldn't trust it.

I think I understood intuitively that there was no sustenance for me in the religion of explanation and prohibition.

We make each decision to abandon the practice of holiness because we don't believe that God is present now or because we don't believe he'll show up later.

I used to believe everything I read, but now I'm steppin' out.

What kind of deception could deceive even the very elect?

A man will not believe something that his livelihood depends on his not believing.

Barry's of a mind it's better to be silent and presumed a fool than to open your mouth and remove doubt altogether.

who looked like a kid lining up for the teacups at Disneyland. "You're sure we have to go down through the cathedral to get to the hospital?" said Elise.

Maybe there's no such thing as the truth. Maybe it's all just a point of view,

did anyone really believe in God anymore? In Satan? That there truly was a daily battle between good and evil waged within our souls and for our souls?

It's hard to realize that you might be wrong when you think you're right—especially when your logic, analysis, emotions, experience, and preparation all point toward your conclusion. As Mark Twain said, "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

But what happens if we look back for support and don't get it? We become less confident about stepping into the unknown. We succeed less and fail more. We move two steps forward and three steps back.

Christians have huge buts, where we believe everything but [insert excuse here].

All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.

Satan is the great 'I am not'; and he is never happier than when he has convinced people that he is non-existent.

The most intense skeptics and the most intense believers of our age share a common conviction: that beneath all superficial appearances lies a deeper truth.

Are the Gods real or is Ike Karton just crazy? And the answer is: Yes.

What's a matter Chris? You shitting yourself? You should be!

When we fail to answer someone's questions and objections, we become just one more excuse for them to disbelieve.

Ambiguity is more convincing than certainty.

I am somewhat skeptical about these findings.

I've never met a writer who hasn't been filled with self-doubt

What if I have it all upside down? What if I'm the one who knows nothing of God, and the people in the world are actually interceding on my behalf with their ordinary daily struggles