Quotes about Doubt

Without courage we can never attain to true simplicity. Cowardice keeps us "double minded" —hesitating between the world and God.

It was in this year, too, that the hard crust of my dry soul finally squeezed out all the last traces of religion that had ever been in it. There was no room for any God in that empty temple full of dust and rubbish which I was now so jealously to guard against all intruders, in order to devote it to the worship of my own stupid will.

Indeed, too often the weakest thing about our faith is the illusion that our faith is strong, when the "strength" we feel is only the intensity of emotion or of sentiment, which have nothing to do with real faith.

Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked. And there is a far worse anxiety, a far worse insecurity, which comes from being afraid to ask the right questions — because they might turn out to have no answer. One of the moral diseases we communicate to one another in society comes from huddling together in the pale light of an insufficient answer to a question we are afraid to ask.

Actually I feel more sure than I ever have in my life that I am obeying the Lord and am on the way He wills for me, though at the same time I am struck and appalled (more than ever!) by the shoddiness of my response.

I would be a Christian, except for all the Christians.

But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion.

Faith is not faith until it is tested!

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.