2,035 Quotes About Doubt

Anxiety is treated by a search for certainty. And certainty – wherever we think we've found it – will lead to dogma. And wherever we have dogma, in time, it leads to rigidity. And that rigidity ultimately leads to idolatry.

Success can be discovered on the other side of our fears, doubts and insecurities.

Fuck your doubts, have faith… don’t look down, look up.

Faith is a journey, and doubt is a part of that journey.

This feeling I get, of worthlessness, complete inadequacy; I am my own worst enemy, and noone has ever made me feel less than I am, and noone can ever make me feel more whole than I can.

I follow Jesus not because I don't have any doubts. I follow Jesus because in my doubt, He has always been tender with me.

[O]ut of books / He taught me all the ignorance of men, / And how God laughs in heaven when any man / Says 'Here I'm learned; this, I understand; / In that, I am never caught at fault or doubt.

The ancients were afraid that if they went to the end of the earth they would fall off and be consumed by dragons. But once we understand that Christianity is true to what is there, true to the ultimate environment - the infinite, personal God who is really there - then our minds are freed. We can pursue any question and can be sure that we will not fall off the end of the earth.

...when he kneels at other times and prays or meditates or tries to achieve a Big-Picture spiritual understanding of God as he can understand Him, he feels Nothing — not nothing, but Nothing, an edgeless blankness that somehow feels worse than the sort of unconsidered atheism he Came In with.