#doubt

I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#doubt #hate #shame #change

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#decisions #doubts #death

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

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#creeds #doubt #faith #half #honest

Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#do you know #doubt #happened #horrible #i

Who then was the orthodox, who the freethinker? Where lay the true position, the true state of man? Should he descend into the all-consuming all-equalizing chaos, that ascetic-libertine state; or should he take his stand on the "Critical-Subjective," where empty bombast and a bourgeois strictness of morals contradicted each other? Ah, the principles and points of view constantly did that; it became so hard for Hans Castorp's civilian responsibility to distinguish between opposed positions, or even to keep the premises apart from each other and clear in his mind, that the temptation grew well-nigh irresistible to plunge head foremost into Naphtha's "morally chaotic All. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#human-nature #principles #equality

Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is. ↗

— John Donne

#faith #faith

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#faith #religion #faith

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt. ↗

— Dallas Willard

#doubt #faith #faith

It isn't fair how I doubt him, and I wonder if he'll ever gather that my loss of faith extends further than I'd ever known it would, severing lines of trust and leveling my confidence like a city-flattening tornado. ↗

— Tammara Webber

#loss-of-faith #trust #faith

The deep roots never doubt spring will come. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#doubt #faith #spring #trust #faith