Quotes about Doubt

I am losing faith in such a simple thing as despising an enemy with unequivocal righteousness.

If his decision to keep us here in the Congo wasn't right, then what else might he be wrong about? It has opened up in my heart a sickening world of doubts and possibilities, where before I had only faith in my father and love for the Lord. Without that rock of certainty underfoot, the Congo is a fearsome place to have to sink or swim.

We'd worked so hard for God's favor, yet it seemed God was still waiting for some extra labor on our part, and it was up to my father to figure out what.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed more… safe.

anything is possible but probably not that

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.

They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

A lot of gunters even questioned whether she was really female, but I wasn't one of them. Probably because I couldn't bear the idea that the girl with whom I was virtually smitten might actually be some middle-aged dude named Chuck, with back hair and male-pattern baldness.