Quotes about Doubt
Except he be willing, man cannot believe.
— St. Augustine
You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.
— Thomas Merton
For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.
— DH Lawrence
If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all
— CS Lewis
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
— John Donne
The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.
— Thomas Merton
I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution.
— CS Lewis
What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?
— Elie Wiesel
If you believe in your heart, and do not doubt in your mind.
— Terri Savelle Foy
Credere quia absurdum est
— Tertullian
I believe because it is absurd.
— Tertullian
Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.
— St. Thomas Aquinas