Quotes about Doubt

It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.

Their youngness is terrifying. How could I have put myself into the hands of such inexperience?

Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. I refuse to say this. If it means I will have to forgive Mrs. Smeath or else go to Hell when I die, I'm ready to go. Jesus must have known how hard it is to forgive, that was why he put this in. He was always putting in things that were impossible to do really, such as giving away all your money.

When in doubt, when flat on your back, you can look at the ceiling. Who knows what you may see, up there? Funeral wreaths and angels, constellations of dust, stellar or otherwise, the puzzles left by spiders. There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

Now I wanted to be acknowledged, but I feared it.

I wish I knew what You were up to. But whatever it is, help me to get through it, please. Though maybe it's not Your doing; I don't believe for an instant that what's going on out there is what You meant. I have enough daily bread, so I won't waste time on that. It isn't the main problem. The problem is getting it down without choking on it.

Reenie never went in much for God. There was mutual respect, and if you were in trouble naturally you'd call on him, as with lawyers; but as with lawyers, it would have to be bad trouble. Otherwise it didn't pay to get too mixed up with him.

Too good to be true, I will think. Too good for this earth. Good, be thou my evil.

Maybe nothing happened, maybe these emotions I remember are not the right emotions.

I wanted to ask why it had to be like this, but I already knew the answer: because it was God's plan. That was how the Aunts got out of everything

God isn't what they say," she said. She said you could believe in Gilead or you could believe in God, but not both.

You can't walk in faith and fear at the same time.