Quotes About Doubt

And, just as it only takes a moment to die, it only takes a moment to live. You just close your eyes and let every futile fear slip away. And then, in this new state, free from fear, you ask yourself: who am I? If I could live without doubt what would I do?

And, for the first time, Nora worried about herself as if she was actually someone else.

Yes, sure, God could not exist. But then neither could humans. So, if they believed in themselves - the logic must go - why not believe in something that was only a fraction more unlikely?

because they believed in free will. Ha! Humans

Father Christmas?' said Father Vodol, suspiciously. 'It doesn't sound very memorable.

Nora had no idea what success was. She had felt like a failure for so long.

Whatever it is you want out of life, make a decision and a commitment first and then work out the how. If you think doubt in your head, you find doubt in the world.

Half the ideas in this book are probably wrong.

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

I was a lapsing Christian, but in what direction was I lapsing? To nowhere, to nothingness. As absurd as the church was, it was an improvement over my actual life because there was at least a pretense of meaning there. Back in New York, I was just eating and taking up space, a depraved postmodern creature on the job, carrying pebbles up the media anthill.

Miracles do not happen.

I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday; I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.

Thou waitest for the spark from heaven: and we,Light half-believers of our casual creeds,Who never deeply felt, nor clearly willed…Who hesitate and falter life away,And lose tomorrow the ground won today—Ah! do not we, wanderer! await it too?

It is a great provocation to God for us to question his presence, providence, or promise, especially for his Israel to do it, who are so peculiarly bound to trust him.

But you don't prove anything at all when you say it's something you just can't imagine happening.

Doctrina: Que hay muchos en el mundo que casi "lo son", pero al final son solo casi cristianos

You look good," I tell my reflection. "Hot?" But this last part comes out with a question mark at the end. I've never been good at sales.

The way we saw things, it didn't matter that God had created the heavens and the earth—he did not want us excited about living here. A good fundamentalist worth his weight in guilt was quick to remind any skeptic that the world was going to hell in a handbasket.

She wondered if she'd taken the first step on the road away from her dreams. What scared her was how easy it had been to do it.

Sergeant Missouri crouched close to the ground, pulling up his collar against the bitter, gusting winds. Show me, he thought tiredly, I'm from Missouri.

Shame and doubt, the two great cripplers... [Édouard Manet]

She forced herself to hold his gaze. Why couldn't she stop caring? Why did her belly still flutter with anticipation at his presence? Clint took a step toward her. "Are you certain about this, Mattie?" he asked, his voice low and intense.

Le propre des hommes forts n'est pas d'ignorer les hésitations et les doutes qui sont le fond commun de la nature humaine, mais seulement de les surmonter plus rapidement.

But that is exploration: a great deal of hesitation, doubt, error, and then, quite suddenly, a discovery.