Top 100 Doubt Faith Quotes
#1. I wanted to explore the kinds of hope and doubt, faith and disappointment, that shape the next generation, whether consciously or not. I suppose, in all of my work, I'm always going back in time.
Dara Horn
#2. To have great faith is to have great power, because your intent, your will, is undivided. When your word isn't dissipated by doubt, the power of your word becomes even stronger.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#3. Always have faith in yourself and the universe, for one will not get you anywhere without the other. Both must be equally strong to reach your desires, for they are the wings that will lift you to your dreams.
Suzy Kassem
#4. Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself.
Paul Tillich
#5. I believe that doubts, honestly expressed and wrestled with, produce a faith that is stronger and more intimate than doubts suppressed under the veneer of faith.
Sheila Walsh
#6. When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
Ernest Holmes
#7. Doubt is conquered by faith, just as it is faith which has brought doubt into the world.
Soren Kierkegaard
#8. she prays to feel as powerful
as she might if God sang silent
words into her ear and answered
all the rattling questions
now
Beth Morey
#9. The opposite of faith is not doubt. The opposite of faith is disobedience.
Tony Evans
#11. Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.
Paul Tournier
#12. When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B.
Joyce Rachelle
#13. Being a scientist requires having faith in uncertainty, finding pleasure in mystery, and learning to cultivate doubt. There is no surer way to screw up an experiment than to be certain of its outcome.
Stuart Firestein
#15. She believed in me. Where I had doubt and fear, she had faith.
Joanne Owen
#16. Emerging church leaders are not impressed by those who defend the Christian faith by promoting definitive answers to convince those who doubt the faith.
Eddie Gibbs
#17. Fear and doubt do not kill courage and faith; they birth them. You cannot have courage without fear. You cannot have faith without doubt.
Steve Maraboli
#18. Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.
Robert Breault
#19. If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can't, choose their faith over your doubt.
Alan Cohen
#20. If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.
George Carey
#21. It is not about never doubting, it is about coming out on the other side with twice the faith you had going into your doubt.
Beth Moore
#22. There is something about the mental act of thanksgiving that seems to carry the human mind far beyond the region of doubt into the clear atmosphere of faith and trust, where "all things are possible."
H. Emilie Cady
#23. Doubt is to me the handmaiden to faith, its cop, the one that keeps faith straight. To doubt is an indication of freedom and a guard against fanaticism.
Nora Gallagher
#24. Da used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers, but every time it's lost, trust becomes harder and harder to win back.
Victoria Schwab
#25. All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.
Robert Browning
#26. Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.
Emil Cioran
#27. Sometimes, we just have to have enough faith to practice patience and not let our impatience morph into doubt.
Tracie Miles
#28. Fight the good fight of faith; ignore all callings of doubt regardless of how loud they sound. Arm yourself always against disappointments by planning and preparing very well.
Israelmore Ayivor
#29. Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Mark 11:22, 23,
Andrew Wommack
#31. The man who does good in doubt must have so much more merit than one who does it in the bright certainty of belief. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold ... " A warning against the smugness of inherited faith.
Morris L. West
#32. Faith no doubt moves mountains, but not necessarily to where we want them.
Mason Cooley
#33. Things will come up to challenge you, to make you doubt yourself, constantly. You have to have that inner strength, that resolve. Faith. You have to trust it. Or you will keep falling back into old patterns, giving into fears, anxiety, what other people think.
Stacie Hammond
#34. Doubt is your intellectual conscience pleading with you to be honest with yourself.
Peter Boghossian
#35. Just as the light chases the dark away, active faith sends doubt packing!
Evinda Lepins
#37. No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled them at that time to overcome the world, and by which they climbed up to heaven.
George Whitefield
#38. For anything worth accomplishing, we can always find reasons to doubt, just as we can also find reasons to proceed ... I have chosen to side with faith and hope over doubt and despair.
Brandon Mull
#39. Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us.
J.C. Ryle
#40. Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
Philip Yancey
#41. Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly nurtured, whereas despair, like dandelions, needs so little encouragement to sprout and spread. Despair comes so naturally to the natural man!
Neal A. Maxwell
#43. Your words and deeds are seeds, scattered in the wind ... the seeds are light or darkness ... they'll break apart or mend ... Sow light instead of gloom. Sow faith instead of doubt. Sow truth and love, and hope, and peace. Sow light and darkness rout.
Colleen Luntzel
#45. There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt,
Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Fannie Flagg
#46. Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.
William Arthur Ward
#47. The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.
Thomas Merton
#48. I think most religious people experience just as much doubt as they do faith; they just don't admit it. (13)
Elna Baker
#49. The novel is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt and reason, offering a complex narrative steeped with ethical debates of God, free will and morality. Since
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#50. Doubt and faith are parts of human experience, whether one views them as right or wrong. Also doubt and faith are instrumental to grasping truth in some very obvious senses.
Leviak B. Kelly
#51. Paul connects faith and hope. Rather than saying young people have faith if they believe without doubt, it might be better to say they have faith if, up against doubt, fear, and struggle, they hope.
Andrew Root
#52. His faith was in the Lord. He looked back without regret; he looked around without fear; and he looked ahead without doubt or apprehension because he trusted in Jesus Christ.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#53. It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#54. A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. -Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983)
Jose Bergamin
#55. My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths
Moses Mendelssohn
#56. The opposite of faith is not doubt, it's certainty.
Anne Lamott
#57. Religious faith, is a state of mind, that leads people to believe in something, it doesn't matter what, without a whisper of doubt, or a whiff of evidence, and believe so strongly in some cases, that they are prepare to kill and die for it, without the need for further justification.
Richard Dawkins
#58. He was never unfaithful to Bina. But there is no doubt that what broke the marriage was Landsman's lack of faith.
Michael Chabon
#59. It is not miracles that bring a realist to faith. A true realist, if he is not a believer, will always find in himself the strength and ability not to believe in miracles as well, and if a miracle stands before him as an irrefutable fact, he will sooner doubt his own senses than admit the fact.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#60. The opposite of faith isn't doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.
Claudia Gray
#61. We all experience doubts and fears as we approach new challenges. The fear diminishes with the confidence that comes from experience and faith. Sometimes you just have to go for it and see what happens. Jumping into the battle does not guarantee victory, but being afraid to try guarantees defeat
Brian Goodell
#62. There is no doubt where the founding fathers stood on this issue. They believed that people of faith should be permitted to express themselves in public. They believed that this country was big enough and free enough to allow expression of on enormous variety of views and beliefs.
John Cornyn
#64. With faith one attains and realises peace and harmony. With doubt one destroys and gains freedom to move ontowards.
Fazal Inayat-Khan
#65. I would argue that healthy doubt (questioning one's beliefs) is perhaps the best defense against unhealthy doubt (questioning God). When we know how to make a distinction between our ideas about God and God himself, our faith remains safe when one of those ideas is seriously challenged.
Rachel Held Evans
#66. He has made me glad and no one can make me sad. He makes me shout and no one can make me doubt ...
Billy Bray
#67. Doubt is a powerful tool. Doubt challenges my beliefs and breaks the spell of all the lies and superstitions that control my world. I use doubt to recover faith in myself, to take my power back from every superstition I believe in, and return that power to myself.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#68. Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.
Charles Baudelaire
#69. But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy; and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts.
Will Durant
#70. First doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith. We must never allow doubt to hold us prisoner and keep us from the divine love, peace, and gifts that come through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#71. Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith
Paul Tillich
#72. I want you to wrestle with the Bible. Do it. Wrestle until, Jacob-like, you walk with a limp ever after, and you receive the blessing of the Lord.
Sarah Bessey
#73. Yet even in such moments she didn't doubt that God existed. She just sometimes wondered if He remembered that she did.
Tamera Alexander
#74. It is important to know that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but in fact, certitude and the demand for certitude!
Richard Rohr
#75. You can't have any doubt whatsoever when operating in the faith realm. Sometimes the least little
hesitation can allow doubt to override faith. So we mustn't hesitate anytime the Holy Spirit tells/prompts us to act.
Calvin W. Allison
#76. There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.
Paul Tillich
#77. The only antidote to religious triumphalism is the readiness of communities of faith to permit doubt and self-criticism to play a vital role in the life of Faith.
Douglas John Hall
#78. You least obtain something great from the great thing you regard as least though such great thing can give you something great
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#79. If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
Orison Swett Marden
#80. Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.
Criss Jami
#81. In the sea of love, I melt like salt, Faith, Doubt - they both dissolve. A star is opening in my heart, The worlds turn in it.
Rumi
#82. Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.
Rick Warren
#83. The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#84. The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact or of Christian faith and practice
F.F. Bruce
#85. I say, choose faith. Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism.
Dallin H. Oaks
#87. Mr. Merrill was most appealing because he reassured us that doubt was the essence of faith, and not faith's opposite.
John Irving
#88. If you are ever in doubt about which way you should travel, make a choice that contains the essence of goodness and love and then go in that direction. This way, you can have absolute faith that you made the right decision.
Molly Friedenfeld
#89. I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
Wilson Mizner
#90. The doors leading out of scriptural literalism do not open from the inside. The moderation we see among nonfundamentalists is not some sign that faith itself has evolved; it is, rather, the product of the many hammer blows of modernity that have exposed certain tenets of faith to doubt.
Sam Harris
#91. Sometimes you say to yourself: the fire in me is going out. But you were not the one who lit that fire. Your faith does not create God, and your doubts cannot banish Him to nothingness.
Brother Roger
#92. Less fear, more courage.
Less doubt, more faith.
Less talking, more action.
Less ignorance, more knowledge.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#93. Certainly you will have doubts. There will be questionings and faith will return again. That is how faith is established.
Sarada Devi
#94. If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
William Blake
#95. In the attic, a warhead no doubt burns. Everything is combustible. Faith burns. Trust burns. Everything burns to nothing and even nothing burns ... And when there is nothing, there is nothing worth dying for and when there is nothing worth dying for, there is only nothing.
Tim O'Brien
#96. I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.
Beyonce Knowles
#97. Go with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all. Hades feeds on doubt and hopelessness. He will trick you if he can, make you mistrust your own judgment. Once you are in his realm, he will never willingly let you leave. Keep faith. Good luck, Percy Jackson.
Rick Riordan
#98. You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
Barack Obama
#99. I'm filled with doubt, especially about my faith.
Paulo Coelho
#100. While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.
Richard Baxter
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