Quotes about Doubt

I felt so thirsty for God, so embarrassed by Christianity, and so ready for something more.

Sometimes I was incredibly frustrated and angry, wondering how these extremes could exist in the same world, let alone in the same church. Sometimes I just got cynical. That was the easiest thing to feel, as cynicism takes very little energy.

I wondered if there were other restless people asking the question with me: What if Jesus meant the stuff he said? .

I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they] didn't believe a damn thing, they would have a very hard time deciding which of us is which.

I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.

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

I've seen too much of the beauty of the Lord's creation to ever doubt the Almighty.

Reason is the most naive of all superstitions.

Through them, I discovered a community of faith—that it was okay to doubt, to question, and still reach for something beyond the here and now.

I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are a motley crew, distinguished not only by our inability to explain ourselves to those who are more certain of their beliefs than we are but in many cases by our distance from the centers of our faith communities as well.

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And I can understand a tender, unprejudiced Jesus. But I could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house. You wind up walking on eggshells, never knowing which... is at home at the moment.

He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.