Quotes about Doubt
Faith is rather a freedom, a permission. It is permitted to be so—that the believer in God's Word may hold on to this Word in everything, in spite of all that contradicts it.
- Karl Barth
Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
- John Henry Newman
A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.
- Richard Sibbes
Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.
- Heinrich Heine
Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us.
- JC Ryle
The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
- Elbert Hubbard
A man ceases to be an honest doubter the moment he refuses one way of getting at the truth because he does not like that way.
- Oswald Chambers
To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.
- John Adams
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.
- Elbert Hubbard
Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
- GK Chesterton
Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.
- Epicurus