Lillian Smith Quotes

Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

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.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

If you take the yin-yang, it has a piece of the other inside itself. You can't be too much of one thing and be balanced.

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.

I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

Dark can't exist with the light. Ain't nothing dark about God.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'

I don't believe in God, but I believe in angels.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

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

You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that it does. I try to write the way I read, in order to find out what happens next.