Quotes about Doubt

Which leads to another question: When Matthew tells us that some of Jesus's followers doubted, does this undermine the story, or is this the exact kind of honesty that reflects how people actually are? When each of the Gospel writers includes the part about the women being witnesses, why risk it? What a strange thing to include knowing it would discredit their story, unless women actually were the first witnesses.

This is the opposite of brainwashing. This is the opposite of Just believe and don't ask questions. He keeps inviting people to think critically, to examine, question, doubt, test, struggle. To own it for themselves. I came across this line in the New Testament: Test everything. I love that line. It's

Why would anybody become a Christian?" That's a question lots of people have—educated, reasonable, modern people who find becoming a Christian an "explosive," not to mention an inconceivable, thing to do.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

The spirit of dialectical fearlessness is not so easily acquired; and the sense of isolation which remains despite the conviction of right, the sadness of the parting from admired and trustworthy [or trusted?] authorities, is the line of demarcation which marks the threshold of its acquirement.

Oh, I wonder if I shall ever be able to do anything worth while in the way of writing.

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Are you unstable about your relationship to Christ?

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.