#doubt

Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Little faith sees God's hand in great things. Established faith sees God's hand in little things. ↗

— Ralph Bouma

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Be true, unbeliever. ↗

— Stephen R. Donaldson

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We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

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Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin'. ↗

— Howard Frank Mosher

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They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave the head a nod. ↗

— Russell Shorto

#head #knowledge #faith

Doubter wants proof which contributes nothing to her faith. ↗

— Toba Beta

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And yet when I wish to explore how faith works, I usually sneak in by the back door of doubt, for I best learn about my own need for faith during its absence. God's invisibility guarantees I will experience times of doubt. Everyone dangles on a pendulum that swings from belief to unbelief, back to belief, and ends - where? ↗

— Philip Yancey

#faith #faith-in-god #god #experience

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. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

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