Quotes about Doubt

My heart struggles to make peace between God's ability to change hard things and His apparent decision not to change them for me.

When my brain begs me to doubt God, as it most certainly does, I find relief for my unbelief by laying down my human assessments and assumptions; I turn from the Tree of Knowledge and fix my gaze on the Tree of Life.

Friendships are like plowed open fields ready for growth. What we plant is what will grow. If we plant seeds of reassurance, blessing, and love, we reap a great harvest of security. Of course, if we plant seeds of backbiting, questioning, and doubt, we reap a great harvest of insecurity.

Resisting God's promises will make us forget God's presence.

How many times have I claimed to be a woman of faith but rarely lived a life requiring faith?

Life doesn't add up. People don't add up. And in the rawest moments of honest hurting, God doesn't add up. All of which makes us hold our trust ever so close to our chests until it becomes more tied to our fears than to our faith.

Cynicism dressed like a security guard, making me believe that if I hoped for less, it would protect me and prevent more pain.

sometimes when you can't find your footing with your own faith, you just have to go stand on someone else's for a while.

Please see how dangerous this assumption was. She got alone with her own thoughts and assumptions. And it led her to doubt God. And take control to get what she wanted. What she thought was best.

C. S. Lewis said it best: "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."1

This went beyond just rejection from man. That is hard. But what's downright horrible is when God seems to just silently stand by, withholding answers and solutions for which you've cried out. That deep hurt can make you question His goodness.

Fear makes the gap between where I am and trusting God seem an impossible chasm.