Quotes about Doubt

There are no sins God's people are more subject to than unbelief and impatience.

You may as well bid an elephant fly in the air, as a covetous man live by faith.

The secret is to fill your mind with thoughts of faith, confidence, and security. This will force out or expel all thoughts of doubt, all lack of confidence. To one man who for a long time had been haunted by insecurities and fears I suggested that he read through the Bible underlining in red pencil every statement it contains relative to courage and confidence. He also committed them to memory, in effect cramming his mind full of the healthiest, happiest, most powerful thoughts in the world.

Let the skeptics have their doubts. I prefer to believe that ideas do have wings!

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear.

Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.

You ever get ill at ease? said Rawlins. About what? I dont know. About anything. Just ill at ease. Sometimes. If you're someplace you aint supposed to be I guess you'd be ill at ease. Should be anyways. Well suppose you were ill at ease and didnt know why. Would that mean that you might be someplace you wasnt supposed to be and didnt know it?

Sometimes faith might just be a case of not havin nothin else left.

Because a lot of the time ever when I say anything about how the world is goin to hell in a handbasket people will just sort of smile and tell me I'm gettin old.

The Good Book says that the meek shall inherit the earth and I expect that's probably the truth. I aint no freethinker, but I'll tell you what. I'm a long way from bein convinced that it's all that good a thing.