We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day and that's how we're raising our daughter.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Religious belief like history itself is a story that is always unfolding always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads round and green these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.
Faith like a jackal feeds among the tombs and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
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.
Action and faith enslave thought both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection criticism and doubt.
Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty it becomes faith and the universe is built on faith.
Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time for one will dispel the other.
There lives more faith in honest doubt believe me than in half the creeds.
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
You know my faith is one that admits some doubt.
I forbid you agnostic doubting thoughts to destroy the house of my faith.
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt I should not believe.
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
Even when you have doubts take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
The advent of a new religion making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high is not a frequent occurrence.