#doubt

To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience ... the quality of a Christian's experience depends on the quality of his faith, just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God's truth. ↗

— Os Guinness

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I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

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Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is. ↗

— John Donne

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Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt. ↗

— Dallas Willard

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It isn't fair how I doubt him, and I wonder if he'll ever gather that my loss of faith extends further than I'd ever known it would, severing lines of trust and leveling my confidence like a city-flattening tornado. ↗

— Tammara Webber

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The deep roots never doubt spring will come. ↗

— Marty Rubin

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

— Simone Weil

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Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks. ↗

— Mark Buchanan

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