Quotes about Doubt
Believing in God had to do with a system of convictions, deep faith, things that her parents and her sister and Jonathan had, things that had never come easily to Blair.
— Terri Blackstock
she had wondered if any of his Christianity was true. Had it all been a cover? A way to network and look honest? Or had he truly loved Jesus, but found ways to compartmentalize the sin in his life as so many others did?
— Terri Blackstock
Knowledge is the first obstacle of the mind that a meditator should be able to remove. We should not be too sure of anything.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Faith is never identical with piety.
— Karl Barth
Faith is never identical with "piety" even if it were the purest and finest.
— Karl Barth
When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?
— Karl Barth
Everyone who has to contend with unbelief should be advised that he ought not to take his own unbelief too seriously.
— Karl Barth
The formula "two and two make five" is not without its attractions.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The hesitations and doubts that are present at many points in modern theology do not in themselves indicate a deep and final uncertainty... an alienation from the gospel.
— GC Berkouwer
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried.
— GK Chesterton
The hesitations and doubts that are present at many points (in contemporary theology) do not in themselves indicate a deep final uncertainty, an alienation from the gospel.
— GC Berkouwer
The perspective of Thomas' confession - 'My Lord and God' - must prevail through all our thinking and all our reinterpretations ... All reinterpretation should be tested by whether it can participate in this confession.
— GC Berkouwer