2,035 Quotes About Doubt

Feeling powerless is the result of yielding to fearful thinking.

I didn't sign up to fight magic!

People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it, and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! it is quite another thing, it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy.

We long to experience the grandest of lives and places. The measure of their magnificence is how small we are within them.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can only be true by accident. A faith worth having is faith worth discussing and testing.

Regardless of how you came to doubt, doubt itself is not the problem, but what can be problematic and even tragic is what you do with your doubt.

Why is hard to believe than to doubt?

Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from scholarship at all lest it corrupt their pure faith. It is time to end this standoff, and to reestablish a hermeneutic of trust (itself a sign of the gospel!) in place of the hermeneutic of suspicion which the church has so disastrously borrowed from the postmodern world.

When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith....