Faith And Doubt Quotes:

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

- Warren G. Bennis

source: Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.234, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Doubt, Faith And Doubt

Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.

- Rob Bell

source: "The Gift of Doubt" by Shea Watts, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2015.

topic: Our World, Opposites, People, Dance Partner, Faith And Doubt

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

- Paul Tillich

topic: Faith, Opposites, Doubt, Doubted, Faith And Doubt

The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.

- Peter Abelard

topic: Science, Doubt, May, Greatest Wisdom, Faith And Doubt

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Believe, Hands, Doubt, Faith And Doubt

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

- Criss Jami

topic: Doubt, Stories, Realistic, Question Mark, Faith And Doubt

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

- Robert Browning

topic: Faith, Doubt, Prove, Faith And Doubt

Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith.

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

topic: Doubt, Faith And Doubt

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Education, Wisdom, Witty, Foolish Man, Intelligent Man

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Inspirational, Honesty, Believe, Doubted, Faith And Doubt

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

- Miguel de Unamuno

topic: Faith, Doubt, Doe, Faith And Doubt

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

- Lillian Smith

source: Lillian Eugenia Smith (1954). “The journey”, World Publishing Company

topic: Faith, Second Chance, Curves, Faith And Doubt, Antagonist

Faith precedes the miracle. It has ever been so and shall ever be. It was not raining when Noah was commanded to build an ark. There was no visible ram in the thicket when Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac. Two heavenly personages were not yet seen when Joseph knelt and prayed. First came the test of faith–and then the miracle. Remember that faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other. Cast out doubt. Cultivate faith.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Rain, Son, Sacrifice, Faith And Doubt, Test Of Faith

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

- Wilson Mizner

source: Quoted in Edward Dean Sullivan, The Fabulous Wilson Mizner (1935)

topic: Faith, Education, Doubt, Doubted, Doubt And Certainty

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Life, Faith, Christian, Spiritual Faith, Light And Shadow

When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith.

- E. A. Bucchianeri

topic: Doubt, Littles, Have A Little Faith, Little Faith, Faith And Doubt

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Believe, Doubt, Literature, Faith And Doubt

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

- Voltaire

topic: Inspirational, Faith, Atheist, Flour, Doubted

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.

- Rene Descartes

source: "Principles of Philosophy". Book by Rene Descartes, 1644.

topic: Life, Truth, Real, Spiritual Truth, Doubted

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

topic: Religious, Atheist, Fear, Faith And Doubt, When In Doubt

Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts.

- Robert H. Schuller

source: Robert H Schuller (2006). “Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!”, p.134, Orient Paperbacks

topic: Faith, Doubt, Have Faith, Faith And Doubt

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Faith, Lonely, Feeling Lonely, Doubted

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

- Francis of Assisi

source: The Origin of the Peace Prayer of St. Francis, www.franciscan-archive.org.

topic: Love, Peace, Hatred, Love And Hate, Joy God

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Children, Teaching, Thinking, Faith And Doubt

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.

- Aleister Crowley

source: "The Book of Lies". Book by Aleister Crowley, 1913.

topic: Faith, Morning, Philosophical, Thelema, Drank

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

- Peter Ustinov

source: "2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt". Book by James A. Haught, 1996.

topic: People, Doubt, Religion, Doubted, Faith And Doubt

There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

- Fannie Flagg

topic: Believe, Doubt, Half, Doubted, Faith And Doubt

Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Prayer, Believe, Our Prayers, God Is With You, Faith In Love

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

- Andre Gide

source: "Ainsi soit-il; ou, Les Jeux sont faits". Book by André Gide, p. 174, 1952.

topic: Truth, Believe, Profound, Learning The Truth, Doubt And Certainty

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

- Miguel de Unamuno

topic: Life, Faith, Doubt, Faith And Doubt

We cannot know what faith is if we have never had it, and we cannot obtain it as long as we deny it. Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Long, Doubt, Mind, Faith And Doubt

Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to doubt in one God, to doubt that recreates and enlivens faith and doubt that is really disbelief.

- Jennifer Michael Hecht

topic: Doubt, Different, Belief, Faith And Doubt, Empiricism

What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?

- R. Scott Bakker

topic: Choices, What If, Doubt, Faith And Doubt

Art glows with faith even in its weakest parts. At every moment, writing is an act of self-confidence – the sheerest, most determined, most stubborn self-belief. You CAN have faith and doubt at the same time; the most insecure writer on the planet has faith that shines just as bright as her doubt, and she deserves props for that. It might be hidden deep, she might not feel it and you might not see it, but it’s in there, or she wouldn’t be able to write.

- Kristin Cashore

topic: Art, Writing, Insecure, Faith And Doubt