Quotes about Doubt

We're so obsessed about the risk of shining brightly that we've traded in everything that matters to avoid it.

A curious person embraces the tension between his religion and something new, wrestles with it and through it, and then decides whether to embrace the new idea or reject it.

His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

Indeed, the dirty secret of Christian apologetics is this: there is no human argument that is guaranteed to overcome unbelief.

Apologetics is also application of Scripture to unbelief. Unbelief is no respecter of persons. Both Christians and non-Christians wrestle with doubt and suspicion. A biblical apologetic targets unbelief wherever it may be found, strengthening the faith of Christians and calling unbelievers to repentance and faith in Christ.

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

It's okay to ask questions, sweetheart. You're going through some rough waters. God is bigger than your questions. Don't you worry about that.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

Believe me, than in half the creeds.