#doubts

Ann: How does God’s character fit into things that seem totally against his character? ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#gods-goodness #suffering #trials #faith

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#certainties #content #doubts #end #man

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#bear #being #certain #convinced #doubts

I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean. ↗

— Michael Irvin

#doubts #i #people #totally #understand

In the end when God does speak, it is not the pious friends who are commended. God tells then they have been guilty of misrepresenting God. Only Job – only angry, defiant, doubting Job has been faithful. The story of Job reminds us that God is not offended when we question. Indeed, if anything God is offended when we speak too glibly. Make room in your heart for the angry, defiant and doubting questions. You may find God there as well. ↗

— Peggy Haymes

#faith #job #suffering #tragedy #faith

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#does #doubts #found #him #investigates

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#about #any #career #choice #constant

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#after #am #catholic #death #doubts

If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tough. ↗

— Jane Campion

#doubts #full #keats #often #poems

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#convert #doubts #expel #his #into