Quotes about Doubt

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

He prays dictatorially. When it is sunshine, he prays for rain, and when it is rain, he prays for sunshine. He follows the same idea in everything that he prays for; for what is the amount of all his prayers, but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind, and act otherwise than he does? It is as if he were to say—- thou knowest not so well as I.

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.

There are no sins God's people are more subject to than unbelief and impatience.

You may as well bid an elephant fly in the air, as a covetous man live by faith.

The secret is to fill your mind with thoughts of faith, confidence, and security. This will force out or expel all thoughts of doubt, all lack of confidence. To one man who for a long time had been haunted by insecurities and fears I suggested that he read through the Bible underlining in red pencil every statement it contains relative to courage and confidence. He also committed them to memory, in effect cramming his mind full of the healthiest, happiest, most powerful thoughts in the world.

Let the skeptics have their doubts. I prefer to believe that ideas do have wings!

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.