Quotes about Doubt

Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or just characters in one of my novels.

I doubt if, after all, I'll ever write anything again worth putting in print.

They were walking through the March twilight where it was as warm as June, and the joy of youth filled his soul so that he felt he must speak. 'I think,' he said and his voice trembled, 'that if I lost faith in you I'd lose faith in God.' She looked at him with such a started face that he asked her the matter. 'Nothing,' she said slowly, 'only this: five men have said that to me before, and it frightens me.

There is a fundamental syntactical distinction between saying "we question the Bible" and "the Bible questions us.

Not every Christian finds it easy to believe.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

Mrs. Lot was a sandwich-generation woman, not sure what life might hold for her-scared of going forward, frightened of going back.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.

In relationship to God one can not involve himself to a certain degree. God is precisely the contradiction to all that is 'to a certain degree'.

In fact one is tempted to ask whether there is a single man left ready, for once, to commit an outrageous folly.