Quotes About Doubt

It doesn't do you any good to pray in question marks.

Many of us are religious precisely to keep us from trusting God. We go to church, we give money, and we do all the right things--in the hope that God will never puts us in a position where we actually have to trust him.

Many of us are living contradictions. I've done some empirical probing in my own life and have determined this to be true. We want God to speak to us, but we're petrified he'll call us to something uncomfortable, or difficult, or worse . . . something uncool.

If there are real angels in the world," Michael said to his brother, "how come they're never around when we need them?

a gradual leaking away of all conviction

All hate is just fear. All fear is just insecurity

If there's anything I hate is someone who questions my credit.

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.

The trouble with truth is that not only does truth stink; it usually does not exist.

I prefer to doubt everything. Such a disposition does not preclude a resolute character. On the contrary, as far as I am concerned, I always advance more boldly when I don't know what is waiting me for me. After all, nothing worse than death can happen-and death you can't escape!

As long as you doubt your sanity, you can't be insane.

My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

God isn't dead. He's just getting a second opinion.

But in general, he avoided discussions about religion. There was no way to win them anyway, he thought, why bother. Whichever side you fell on, you had to conclude with the statement « I believe... » rather than « I know. ».

Her complaint about her husband was not that he was boring or that he wasn't home enough. Nori was not a bad person. It was just that she felt like she had no clear sense of him after nineteen years of marriage, and she doubted that she ever would.

Nori was not a bad person. It was just that she felt like she had no clear sense of him after nineteen years of marriage, and she doubted that she ever would. He didn't seem to need her except to be a wife in name and a mother to his children. For Nori, this was enough.

The big secret that he kept from his mother, aunt, and even his beloved uncle was that Noa did not believe in God anymore. God had allowed his gentle, kindhearted father to go to jail even though he had done nothing wrong. For two years, God had not answered Noa's prayers, though his father had promised him that God listens very carefully to the prayers of children.

Was it that girl?

Is it so terrible to be Korean?" "It is terrible to be me.

But one thing I will impart to my children is: If you're scared of something, that isn't a sign that you have to do it. It probably means you shouldn't do it.

Edward Albee, our greatest living playwright, American treasure, who watched Doubt from beginning to end and loved it, all while a bored B. J. Novak slept on him.

I love you, Mindy! Mindy, look at me, believe me!" "I don't? "Why????" "Because you love me until you don't.

I doubt I'll ever be knowledgeable enough to satisfy her or my curiosity about our faith, but I'm really going to try. As long as Kit and I are Kind of Hindu, we will never be alone.