Quotes About Doubt

Faith can't be forced, but unfaith can be challenged. That is how it has always been, from the very beginning, when people have borne witness to Jesus's resurrection.

don't believe everything you read about the Rapture. In fact, don't believe most of what you read about the Rapture.

Jesus only appeared to people who believed in him. Answer: the accounts make it clear that Thomas and Paul do not belong to this category; and actually none of Jesus's followers believed, after his death, that he really was the Messiah, let alone that he was in any sense divine.

One might even state it as an axiom: when the church leaves out bits of its core teaching, heretics will pick them up, turn them into something new, and use them to spread doubt and unbelief.

If you want to know why the "new atheists" like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Atkins sell so many books, the answer is that they're offering the modernist version of the good old-fashioned theological term "assurance." They are assuring anxious ex-believers that the nightmare of small-minded and stultifying "religion" is gone

Old soldiers sometimes say, "There are no atheists in foxholes." (A foxhole, in military slang, is a shallow pit in a dangerous place on the battlefield.)

Historical argument alone cannot force anyone to believe that Jesus was raised from teh dead, but historical argument is remarkably good at clearing away the undergrowth behind which skepticism of various sorts have long been hiding.

Arguments about God are] like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.

What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.

I'm an atheist. I wouldn't even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.

God hates me," she heard him mutter. "Now there are two of them.

Surely," he said, "you don't doubt Samuel Rain's genius. Are you a monkey?

So you really meant what you said to me yesterday?" Her voice rose. "I should find myself a nice wolf and settle down?" He fought off the rising incursions of dissonance, the razor blades sliding through his brain stem and traveling down his spine. "That would be rushing things.

Sarah loved Abe with a devotion that terrified her. She knew he didn't love her back.

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In her madder moments, Charlotte sometimes wondered if he was rough in bed or if he had tenderness in him.

Bad-minded man, always making mischief, spreading doubt and fear.

What are gods for, then, if they let things like this to happen to their people?

Writing would take a tremendous leap of faith because I'd have to invest a lot of time and energy into something that I don't know will get published.

Truely was a Mississippi boy still. He didn't have a thing against religion, especially in the gentle hands of somebody like his daddy--or his mother either. But he wasn't too much persuaded when salvation was fired out of a double-barrel shotgun aimed point-blank at his skull.

I would be a socialist if I thought it would work.

despite what she said, she knew the

Well, he perked right up and said, Five hundred dollars? Mrs. Elliot, I believe we can be of service to you after all. "I doubt it, I told him. I made this money with the sweat of my brow and the labor of my hands and I've got the rawhide to prove it. I don't inted to leave it with any man that thinks money is confusing.

I wondered someday if the devil might wake up and see he got the wrong girl, what will happen then?