Frederick Wiseman Quotes

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.

I did not know what my future was going to hold.

If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.

I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.

In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.

The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?'

My parents are ministers.

We grew up going to church, and I believe in God. I don't know that I have the ability to define what or who or how God is. You know, I think that religion kind of messes people up in that regard. That's just my own personal philosophy.

My father was a minister, so I was raised in the church.

I don't have any answers, but in my personal opinion, I'm a person that has faith and I believe that a lot of people have neglected God.

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.

I go to church because I am a skeptic in regard to my own skepticism.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

‎Faith, if it is ever right about anything, is right by accident

I don't know what the future holds.

Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.