Quotes about Doubt

Back in high school, once she suspected that I was probably not a Christian, she did not break up with me as she should have.

Chesterton is quoted as saying, "When a man stops believing in God, he doesn't then believe in nothing, he believes anything.

Young evangelicals are likely to leave their faith because they are not able to articulate their own faith, and many lack a biblical worldview.

The orator persuades by moral character when his speech is delivered in such a manner as to render him worthy of confidence; for we feel confidence in a greater degree and more readily in persons of worth in regard to everything in general, but where there is no certainty and there is room for doubt, our confidence is absolute. But this confidence must be due to the speech itself, not to any preconceived idea of the speaker's character;

And if a man believes nothing, but believes it equally so and not so, how would his state be different from a vegetable's?

There's many a man who never tells his adventures, for he can't hope to be believed.

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. For what has thou given up thy goods, thy ease, thy friends, thy reputation, thy country, thy life?'

There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.

A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.

Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself. MADELEINE L'ENGLE