Quotes about Doubt

God is not intimidated by such hard and testing questions, nor is he unable to answer them. But we must come with the right kind of skepticism—not the kind that refuses to believe anything at all, but the kind that is committed to believe only what is really true.

We find everywhere in this world the traces of a revealed God and of a hidden God; revealed enough to strengthen our faith, concealed enough to try our faith.

I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.

If you hold a rose up before a man and he shuts his eyes tight and just holds out his hands and says "Here, I am ready to be persuaded; convince me by touch that your rose is red;" then you are helpless.

Losing your faith is an essential part of having a three-dimensional, vivid, vibrant faith.

There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.

My whole faith was shattered there for a while.

Believing that there is no God does not mean that there isn't one.

Not all who hesitate are lost.

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

Better remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.