Quotes About Doubt

I could believe in hell, but it was impossible for me to believe in the existence of heaven.

The weak fear happiness itself.

God, I ask you. Is trustfulness a sin?

Am I what they call an egoist? Or am I the opposite, a man of excessively weak spirit? I really don't know myself, but since I seem in either case to be a mass of vices, I drop steadily, inevitably, into unhappiness, and I have no specific plan to stave off my descent.

If all you've got is just enough talent to get along, sooner or later you'll betray yourself.

That is precisely what I don't understand: if my neighbors manage to survive without killing themselves, without going mad, maintaining an interest in political parties, not yielding to despair, resolutely pursuing the fight for existence, can their griefs really be genuine? Am I wrong in thinking that these people have become such complete egoists and are so convinced that they have never once doubted themselves?

Affetmek ya da affedememek söz konusu de?ildi. Yo?iko güven abidesiydi. ?nsanlardan ku?kulanmay? bilmiyordu. Fakat trajedi bu yüzden do?mu?tu. Sorar?m Tanr?'ya! Güven suç mudur?

On the other hand, I was equally afraid that they might not recognize my true self when they saw it, but imagine that it was just some new twist to my clowning-occasion for additional snickers.

But the idea of being respected used to intimidate me excessively.

Podría ser la confianza pura una fuente de delito?

Even if their faces turn pale, what kind of proof would that be? And on the other hand if they laugh with no concern at all, that doesn't mean they're not guilty. We could of course judge the sharpness or dullness of their senses, but we can't judge their innocence.

I wondered if in the end I would not be argued into silence by someone in good graces with the world, by the excuses of which the world approved.

There is always a contradiction between religion and common sense.

Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision (on Dwight D. Eisenhower).

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

vous savez, un doute fait plus de mal qu'une déception.

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt—wait.

There are times when you cannot understand why you cannot do what you want to do. When God brings the blank space, see that you do not fill it in, but wait. The blank space may come in order to teach you what sanctification means; or it may come after sanctification to teach you what service means. Never run before God's guidance. If there is the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt—don't.

Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him"—this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.