Faith Is Not The Absence Of Doubt Quotes

#1. Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.

J.D. Greear

#2. It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

Patrick Ness

#3. What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives we are not quite living, God dormant in the world to which we are not quite giving our best selves.

Christian Wiman

#4. They continued but six days under this course, having consumed the quantities that could be spared.

James Lind

#5. Michael Corleone understood for the first time why men like his father chose to become thieves and murderers rather than members of the legal society. The poverty and fear and degradation were too awful to be acceptable to any man of spirit.

Mario Puzo

#6. He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

Simone Weil

#7. 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

#8. This is reality, tofu man, because reality is what we carry in our hearts, and my heart is full of beauty just for you.

Dean Koontz

#9. Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question.

Rosemary Clement-Moore

#10. Darkness is the absence of light. Happiness is the absence of pain. Anger is the absence of joy. Jealousy is the absence of confidence. Love is the absence of doubt. Hate is the absence of peace. Fear is the absence of faith. Life is the absence of death.

Jess Bowen

#11. The strength of your faith is not measured by the absence of doubt, but by the faithfulness of your life in the face of doubt.

Nicky Gumbel

#12. I tried on the farmer's hat, Didn't fit ... A little too small - just a bit Too floppy ... I tried on the summer sun, Felt good. Nice and warm - knew it would. Tried the grass beneath bare feet, Felt neat. Finally, finally felt well dressed, Nature's clothes fit me best.

Shel Silverstein