Quotes about Doubt

The Lord is my shepherd. But if we are sheep why in heaven's name should we trust our shepherd? He's going to guard us from the wolves all right, oh yes, but only so that he can sell us later to the butcher.

The believer will fight another believer over a shade of difference; the doubter fights only with himself.

You can be certain of what you've done, you can judge death, but to save a man — that takes more than six years of training, and in the end you can never be quite sure that it was you who saved him.

Why did God even bother to create minds that naturally gauge their level of confidence in a belief on the evidence and arguments for and against it if he's only pleased with minds that can make themselves more certain than the evidence and arguments for it warrant? I just don't get it!

I was brought up in a home environment where I was taught to think critically and was encouraged to seek answers to questions about my faith.

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.

Do not mistake probability for truth, for it is a notorious liar.

I doubted God last Sunday said Rilla but I don't doubt Him today. Evil cannot win. Spirit is on our side and it is bound to outlast flesh.

Well, I don't know, said the Story Girl thoughtfully. I think there are two kinds of true thing - true things that are , and true things that are not , but might be.