Quotes about Doubt

How then did Abraham exist? He believed. This is the paradox which keeps him upon the sheer edge and which he cannot make clear to any other person, for the paradox is that he as the individual puts himself in an absolute relation to the Absolute.

It takes a talent to doubt, it requires no talent at all to despair (pp515)

Only in much fear and trembling is a human being able to speak with God, in much fear and trembling

those who possess faith should take care to set up certain criteria so that one might distinguish the paradox from a temptation (Anfechtung).

For when faith is eliminated by becoming null or nothing, then there only remains the crude fact that Abraham wanted to murder Isaac — which is easy enough for anyone to imitate who has not faith, the faith, that is to say, which makes it hard for him. 1

Two types of voices command your attention today. Negative ones fill your mind with doubt, bitterness, and fear. Positive ones purvey hope and strength. Which one will you choose to heed?

The strength of your faith is not measured by the absence of doubt, but by the faithfulness of your life in the face of doubt.

The stress that some of us feel - it's a lack of faith, it really is.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

Fear is the absence of faith.

We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.

In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question.