Quotes about Doubt

A man's character became involved to the point that he was caught in a mental turmoil which threatened all the values he held and threw them into doubt.

my daughter at about six years of age asked me the question, "Why do we speak of the good Lord?" Whereupon I said, "Some weeks ago, you were suffering from measles, and then the good Lord sent you full recovery." However, the little girl was not content; she retorted, "Well, but please, Daddy, do not forget: in the first place, he had sent me the measles.

But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.

A good day—a bad day—so it goes on. Few people can be so tortured by writing as I am. Only Flaubert I think. Yet I see it now, as a whole. I think I can bring it off, if I only have courage and patience: take each scene quietly: compose: I think it may be a good book. And then—oh when it's finished!

Yes, she believed God loved her. But if this whole fiasco was His idea of love . . .

Don't believe that,' said Fagin. 'When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend.

is too late for that. I shall never be better than I am. I shall sink lower, and be worse.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Wondering whether Christianity is real is not the same as wondering whether Christianity is true. If you question the truth of Christianity, you can do something tangible about it. You can read books, take a class, or talk to someone about it. But what can you do when you're already convinced it's true but don't experience it as real?

the self-serving, doubt-quenching, certainty-seeking faith that these folks are choosing to pursue is not faith as it's taught in Scripture....the faith that God's people are called to embrace is one that encourages people to wrestle with God, to not be afraid of questions, and to act faithfully in the face of uncertainty.

A healthy skepticism is good, even God-given. However, a need to cynically dismiss anything we cannot personally verify is arrogance.

Disbelieve hell, and you unscrew, unsettle, and unpin everything in Scripture.