Quotes about Doubt

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier

Because of the coexistence of sin and grace, we all shift between denying and affirming our humanity.

I was a wicket-keeper who opened the batting. Could I have made it? Hard to say. I probably wouldn't quite have been good enough. I might get back into it once I've finished with the football.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is the reason that I don't believe anything he has told me.

But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself.

The adult members of churches today rarely raise serious religious questions for fear of revealing their doubts or being thought of as strange. There is an implicit conspiracy of silence on religious matters in the churches. This conspiracy covers up the fact that the churches do not change lives or influence conduct to any appreciable degree.

No, you don't have to certain about anything you're not certain about. In fact, certainty is not something you can choose, anyway. Certainty and uncertainty are not things that are under the will.

Let's remember that Jesus didn't leave Thomas to suffer without the blessing of faith and confidence; he gave him the evidence he required. That is typical of Jesus's approach to doubt; he responded to honest doubters in the way he knew best, the way that would help them to move from doubt to knowledge.

Everyone has been certain and wrong. Certainty is a psychological state that you can work up. You see a lot of this in religious groups. They are trying to work up certainty, but that is a terrible mistake. When you convey knowledge, you are giving people things they can test and find to be true in reality.

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

But I had read all of [the Bible] by then, and I could see that it changed. And if it changed, how could all of it be true?