#doubt

Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ↗

— William Griffith Wilson

#basis #believing #beyond #convinced #doubt

RIVETING TORPOR It is remarkable how far I am prepared to go In order to avoid doing the one thing that might Provide satisfaction, and it is remarkable to consider What I will do instead of it, purely for the pleasure Of being dissatisfied. When it is merely a matter Of sitting down for a few hours and dreaming That something of value might eventually arise From this routine of self-enforced boredom. ↗

— John Tottenham

#fear-of-failure #procrastination #self-doubt #dreams

If you hear a voice within you say „you cannot paint“, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#self-doubt #doubt

If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two, ↗

— Ron Suskind

#doubt #humility #education

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#doubt #equality

So it goes for those of us who live in a cul-de-sac, where babies are brought home from the hospital and watched over, where hearts stop and feet slip, where we wonder if there is a hidden road that leads somewhere. We believe and we doubt. Believing and doubting share the same inevitability, but they are not equal. They cannot lay the same claim on our allegiance. They do not share the same power. If there are places beyond the cul-de-sac, doubt cannot take us there. ↗

— John Ortberg

#faith #equality

Doubt everything. Find your own light. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#doubt #faith #faith

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#future #present #progress #faith

Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#existentialism #faith #faith

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#faith #liberty #religion #skepticism #slavery