Quotes About Doubt

Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.

looks promising and I've taken it up again on occasion. But whenever I did, I realized why I'd not carried on in the first place – in the same way that a specialist might say of a child, that one's not going to grow up right. I could tell that it wouldn't develop into a finished picture.

Your mind works very simply: you are either trying to find out what are God's laws in order to follow them; or you are trying to outsmart Him.

Follow Descartes! Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

He who believes God, recognizes Him as true and faithful, and himself as a liar; for he mistrusts his own thinking as false, and trusts the Word of God as being true, though it absolutely contradicts his own reasoning.

I owe you a small thanks, for you have made me far more sure of my own position by letting me see the case for free choice put forward with all the energy of so distinguished and powerful a mind, but with no other effect than to make things worse than before.

Sometimes the curses of the godless sound better than the hallelujahs of the pious.

Before you pray, check to see whether you believe or doubt that you will be heard. If you are doubting or uncertain, or if you are merely trying a prayer to see what happens, your prayer won't be worth anything.

And if what they claim were true, why have Holy Scripture at all? Of what use is Scripture?

Your life shall hang in doubt before you; night and day you shall be in dread, and have no assurance of your life. In the morning you shall say: 'Would it were evening!' and at evening you shall say: 'Would it were morning!'" I have not found a place which sets forth the misery of a bad conscience so clearly, with such fitting and appropriate words and expressions.

Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

Seeing is not always believing.

Getting confirmation of one's own creation is based solely on uncertainty and a lack of focus in one's own thinking.

people who feel she ain't

Just because you see something doesn't mean it's really there.

Hanno avuto troppa paura di avermi persa per sempre. E poi sono tornata. E' un miracolo. Io sono un miracolo. E loro non riescono a credere che non sparirò un'altra volta. E' buffo, io non mi sono mai considerata scomparsa. Come si sparisce da se stessi?

If God wanted us to be brave, why did He give us legs?

It's easy to be definite if you haven't faced a situation.

Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Tell a man there are 300 Billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.

Boys are like hillucinations, they aren't there, and they never really were.