Quotes about Doubt

Exercise your faith and you exorcise your fears.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

I threw in the obligatory "if it be Your will" at the end. That tagline may sound spiritual, but it was less a submission to God's will and more a profession of doubt. If you aren't careful, the will of God can become a cop-out if things don't turn out the way you want.

If faith is being sure of what we hope for, then being unsure of what we hope for is the antithesis of faith, isn't it?

If faith is being sure of what we hope for, then being unsure of what we hope for is the antithesis of faith, isn't it? Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.

If faith is being sure of what we hope for, then being unsure of what we hope for is the antithesis of faith.

For the place God calls us into isn't doubt free—how can any place where we walk by faith and not by sight be that? No, the holy wild is where we have driving and haunting doubts, God-hungry doubts that pull us to our knees, force us to the Word, make us wrestle all night and not let go until He blesses us. The holy wild throngs with true skeptics.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie — I found that out.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

Anyone can believe when God is already moving. But real faith is when you step out when it seems that God is not moving.