Quotes About Doubt

Am I really a person who lives by faith? God can surely tell the difference between someone who walks in darkness and someone who walks with her eyes shut. Which am I?

And yet Nothing here is certain;

in a matter of seconds, his faith in God, in life, in love, and in a better tomorrow drained away to empty.

Pray? A waste of time. You do what you want, Adella, but I'll figure my own way, thank you. No reason to get God involved if he does not exist.

Seeing those things would make any man question his faith in mankind, the priest said. But most people are essentially good. You have to believe that.

Faith clearly means 'to move forward without knowing.' But for the last 300 years at least it's meant 'to know every-thing with certainty.' How has a word come to mean the exact opposite of what is originally meant?

He said he was concerned about what could still happen to me. I could still be vilified and seen as dangerous, therefore losing me the last remaining bit of respectability I have with the Christian world. I said that after everything I'd been through for the sake of integrity, how could I allow fears like that to control me?

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken...!

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Dude, are my eyes seeing what my brain is telling my eyes that they're seeing?

I never know how much of what I say is true.

True, I've been a long time making up my mind, but now I'm giving you a definite answer. I won't say yes, and I won't say no - but I'm giving you a definite maybe.

When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here?

I can do this, I lied to myself feebly. No one was going to bite me.

I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you believe.

When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.

"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"

Thinking up jokes is easy. The hard part is trying them out on stage, because you never know if they're funny until you get there. Not one comedian in the world ever really knows.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

A pope going through a faith crisis would be funny to see.

I was an altar boy as a kid. And the answer is no.