A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
When you are deluded and full of doubt even a thousand books of scripture are not enough. When you have realized understanding even one word is too much.
Doubt rather than faith is high among the causes of the religious boom. And the churchs response to this current situation will reveal better than anything else our faith in God – or our faithlessness. If we churchmen interpret such pervasive doubt as a threat then we will do as the church has done so often in the past: we will substitute the church for God and make our church-centered activities into an ersatz kingdom of God. Our faithlessness will be evident in the easy paraphrase of the hard truth of the gospel and in the lapse from the critical loyalty that God requires of us into the vague and corrupting sentimentalism that has so marred American Protestantism. Or the church can interpret the present religious situation as a promise as Gods recall of His people to a new reformation. Our faithfulness to God-in-Christ will be manifest in the willingness to be honest with ourselves and with the gospel. Then we may view the church not as an end in itself but as the point of departure into the world for which the Son of God died. Which will it be?
The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Doubt that the stars are fire Doubt that the sun doth shine Doubt that truth be a liar But never doubt that I love.
Guidelines for bureaucrats: 1) When in charge ponder 2) When in trouble delegate 3) When in doubt mumble.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Who never doubted never half believed. Where doubt is there truth is – it is her shadow.
Doubt whom you will but never yourself.
Doubt of whatever kind can be ended by Action alone.
Life is doubt and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
If you would be a real seeker after truth you must at least once in your life doubt as far as possible all things.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
If you must tell me your opinions tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
When in doubt tell the truth.
I love to doubt as well as know.
When you are deluded and full of doubt even a thousand books of scripture are not enough. When you have realized understanding even one word is too much.
I respect faith but doubt is what gets you an education.
To philosophize is to doubt.
And better had they neer been born Who read to doubt or read to scorn.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Doubt rather than faith is high among the causes of the religious boom. And the churchs response to this current situation will reveal better than anything else our faith in God – or our faithlessness. If we churchmen interpret such pervasive doubt as a threat then we will do as the church has done so often in the past: we will substitute the church for God and make our church-centered activities into an ersatz kingdom of God. Our faithlessness will be evident in the easy paraphrase of the hard truth of the gospel and in the lapse from the critical loyalty that God requires of us into the vague and corrupting sentimentalism that has so marred American Protestantism. Or the church can interpret the present religious situation as a promise as Gods recall of His people to a new reformation. Our faithfulness to God-in-Christ will be manifest in the willingness to be honest with ourselves and with the gospel. Then we may view the church not as an end in itself but as the point of departure into the world for which the Son of God died. Which will it be?
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt I should not believe.
Doubt isnt the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end.