DOUBT QUOTES

quotations about doubt

Most men appear wiser in their doubts than in their belief.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


Doubt is the stepping-stone to faith.

HARWOOD HUNTINGTIN

Cui Bono?


Some believers consider doubt to be the worst of all sins. Personally, I don't think that's true. I'm not sure doubt is a sin at all. I believe doubt often marks the growing points of our faith. Sometimes I think doubt is more the texture of my walk with God than certainty is. I'm convinced most of us doubt, but I know that very few of us are honest about it.

TIM BAKER

Jesus Is for Liars


He who shall teach the child to doubt
The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Auguries of Innocence


He is without faith who is afraid of doubters.

J. DONALD JOHNSTON

attributed, Quotations from the Wayside


Yet in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.

J. R. R. TOLKIEN

The Two Towers


A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

JOSÉ BERGAMÍN

El cohete y la estrella


I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.

FLANNERY O'CONNOR

The Habit of Being


The existence of doubt is like a signpost, showing us how far we have to go before we have fully committed ourselves to God.

ALISTER MCGRATH

Doubt in Perspective


Doubt is so much the fashion, and, in truth, so much the necessity of our time, that there is danger that it come to be looked upon as in itself a good. It is good to doubt the false, if the doubt be pursued to the overthrow of the false; it is good to doubt the true that has come to us by tradition or education alone, if the doubt be pursued to the establishment of the true; otherwise there is no good in doubt at all. That feeble life that truth, traditionally held, can give to the nature is better than the bloodlessness of mere doubt. Strong minds doubt, but doubt is no proof of strength; noble minds doubt--in these days, all the noblest must pass through doubt--but doubt is no proof of nobility. The strength and the nobility are shown when the doubts are grappled with till they yield up some hidden treasure of truth. Then the truth is but the second and crowning reward; the first reward began when the struggle began, being found in the growth of that intellectual and moral strength which was at once the parent and the offspring of the contest.

C. W. MOULTON

Queries


Doubt is a catalyst for owning one's faith and allowing the faith story to continue.

ERIC VENABLE

A Tale of Two Youth Workers


Doubt is the herald of progress; the genius of reason; the pathway to truth; the advance guard in the contest with intellectual darkness.

HENRY M. TABER

Faith or Fact


To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

HENRI POINCARÉ

Of Science and Hypotheses


Even a little doubt is like a small stone in a traveller's shoe: it lames him. It is a very little thing, but he had better spend a week in picking it out than go on with it there. Believer, thou must get doubt right out of thee, for until thou believest thou wilt never travel well to heaven, or be strong in the Lord.

CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit


Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

H.L. MENCKEN

attributed, 2000 Years of Disbelief


How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

HOMER

The Odyssey


An intelligent, honest, philosophical Doubt is the most formidable of all foes with which Dogmatists have to contend. Then fear not, ye skeptics--Doubt on! Do for the world what unreasoning faith can never accomplish. Help on the work of Reform!

ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS

The Present Age and Inner Life


The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.

KOBO ABE

The Green Stockings


May there always be a little faith in your doubt.

MACRINA WIEDERKEHR

The Song of the Seed


Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts