Quotes about Doubt
Has science proven that a resurrection is impossible and, therefore, not a credible belief?
— Gary Habermas
His faith wavered, but not his speech: it is the lot of every man who has to speak for the satisfaction of the crowd, that he must often speak in virtue of yesterday's faith, hoping it will come back to-morrow.
— George Eliot
As to his religious notions—why, as Voltaire said, incantations will destroy a flock of sheep if administered with a certain quantity of arsenic. I look for the man who will bring the arsenic, and don't mind about his incantations. Very
— George Eliot
In marriage, the certainty, 'She will never love me much,' is easier to bear than the fear, 'I shall love her no more.
— George Eliot
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— St. Augustine
I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of how shall I say, I dont know.
— Samuel Beckett
A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time.
— Lee Strobel
For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
You deal with doubt all the time. You have to choose to believe God in every situation. I remind myself all the time, get out of fear. Get out of doubt. Get back in faith.
— Joyce Meyer
You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.
— Napoleon Hill
now embrace the divine child within me. May it burst forth now to bless the world. May I not be tempted to doubt the light that lights the entire world. Illumine the earth and save the world. Thank You, Lord.
— Marianne Williamson
Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.
— Mark Buchanan