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“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
“I’m not this unusual,” she said. “It’s just my hair.”She looked at Bobby and she looked at me, with an expression at once disdainful and imploring. She was forty, pregnant, and in love with two men...”
“Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.”
“Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.”
“He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.”
“To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience ... the quality of a Christian's experience depends on...”
“The will to believe has given us our great saints. The will to doubt has given us our great scientists. The goal of the intelligent man is a character in which the will to believe of the saint and ...”
“Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.”
“Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.”
“Religion is a culture of faith science is a culture of doubt.”
“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.”
“Fear and doubt are major stampeders.”
“We both keep quiet. Again.Today just seems like a day for it. It’s easier that way. You don’t have to say things you don’t want to say because once the words are out, you’ll have to confront them.C...”
“We’re like magnets, you know. Only I’m spinning, so I keep pulling you in and then pushing you away. I like you, but then you hurt me, so I run. I like you, but then something makes things feel imp...”
“I kept walking. Have you ever done that? Just walk. Just walk and have no idea where you're going? It wasn't a good feeling, but not a bad one either. I felt caged and free at the same time, like i...”
“The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.”
“When I'm in doubt - as I am now - I ask myself, 'What would Carl Jung do?' - and act accordingly.”
“Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.”
“By then I wasn't just asking questions; I was being changed by them. I was being changed by my prayers, which dwindled down nearer and nearer to silence, which weren't confrontations with God but w...”
“Distrust won’t do good to you.But still if you ever do.Doubt you husband,Maybe doubt your wife.But never suspect,your kid’s father,or the mother of your child.”
