Faith Doubt Quotes

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith.

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In fact I am about to type, 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence.

I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

I know at times we feel that perhaps in our prayers we ask too much. Or possibly we feel something isn't important enough to be bothering God with it. Maybe we should let Him decide these things.

Whatever happens when we die, it would be really weird if it was what we had expected. Even if you were a lifelong Christian believer, it would be kind of weird if there actually were pearly gates.

An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

He that is willing to tolerate any Religion, or discrepant way of Religion, besides his own, unless it be in matters meerly indifferent, either doubts of his own, or is not sincere in it.

I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood.

In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief.

The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.

I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.

I don't want to pretend to tell that I always feel the presence of God because I don't. My consciousness is very often closed to that feeling - most of the time.

God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word.

I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal faith of our president, Mr. Obama.

How can we be so confident that we are correct about the religion of Islam that it is really different in this insidious way and people 50 years from now, people aren't going to back on.