Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.
Mignon McLaughlinTags: doubt self-consciousness
It's not atheists who get stuck in my caw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for awhile. We all must pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we... But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as means of transportation.
Yann MartelTags: doubt atheists agnostics
...Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, and I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers... for quoting the Bible as an unanswerable authority on some point of morality... But I had gradually come by this time, i.e., 1836 to 1839, to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow at sign,
Charles DarwinTags: doubt belief atheism miracles metaphors hell skepticism interpretation evidence divine-revelation
Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.
Robert G. IngersollTags: science doubt inquiry skepticism heresy
Dubium sapientiae initium. (Doubt is the origin of wisdom.)
René DescartesTags: doubt philosophy logic
We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the questions, and we become smug like the Pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men.
Unamuno might be describing the artist as well as the Christian as he writes, "Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.
Tags: doubt belief god faith suffering christian-living
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
Frederick BuechnerNever worry alone. When anxiety grabs my mind, it is self-perpetuating. Worrisome thoughts reproduce faster than rabbits, so one of the most powerful ways to stop the spiral of worry is simply to disclose my worry to a friend... The simple act of reassurance from another human being [becomes] a tool of the Spirit to cast out fear -- because peace and fear are both contagious.
John Ortberg Jr.Tags: fear friendship doubt thinking humanity peace mind spirituality worry holy-spirit
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
Warren BuffettTags: doubt rich warren-buffett
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.
Bram StokerTags: fear doubt wonder terror
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