Quotes About Doubt

One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.

They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation.

It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.

But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him better than He is.

Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

I'll tell you something,' she said. 'I'm not sure I ever really liked him.' Adam?' I said. 'I don't blame you.' 'Not Adam,' she said, struggling to swallow a greedily chomped chunk. 'God.

I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as God.

Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.

I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?

And I thought, there was no God, there was only what you wanted.

God, I am freaking out. Maybe he doesn't know. Maybe I just look guilty of something and he's picking up on that.

Faith does not always demand that God explains Himself.

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

There is no direct evidence, so how could you ask me to believe in God.

If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire...and so God with us.

Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't.

It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.

If god exists, he is not to be believed in.

I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.

I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.

All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.