"But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain."

Doubt, Faith, Absence, Struggle, Meaning

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"But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain."

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"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Doubt, Man, Will, Writing

"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Doubt, Man

"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Doubt, Man

"Why do I lunge for control instead of joy?...do I thin Jesus grace too impotent to give me the full life...Whenever I am blind to joys well, isn't it because I don't believe in Gods care?"

Ann Voskamp, Canadian Author

Doubt, Joy, Control, Faith

"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Doubt, Fathers, Now

"His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Doubt, Religion, Desire, Hope

"Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Doubt, Love, Reason, Enemy

"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."

William Blake, English Poet

Doubt, Moon, Sun

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"When I no longer have your heartI will not request your bodyyour presenceor even your polite conversation.I will go away to a far countryseparated from you by the sea- on which I cannot walk -and refrain even from sendinglettersdescribing my pain."

Relationship

"But what was good tween us must have been nothing but bodies, she say. Cause I don't know the Albert that don't dance, can't hardly laugh, never talk bout nothing, beat you and hid your sister Nettie's letters. Who he?"

Relationship

"A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something."

Identity

"Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?"

Accountability

"It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all."

Time

"People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't."

Life

"I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to."

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"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."

"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."

"Why do I lunge for control instead of joy?...do I thin Jesus grace too impotent to give me the full life...Whenever I am blind to joys well, isn't it because I don't believe in Gods care?"

"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."

"His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps."

"Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason."

"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."

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

"The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt."

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"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."

"Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams."

"They be marching hand in hand, like going to war."

"When I no longer have your heartI will not request your bodyyour presenceor even your polite conversation.I will go away to a far countryseparated from you by the sea- on which I cannot walk -and refrain even from sendinglettersdescribing my pain."

"But what was good tween us must have been nothing but bodies, she say. Cause I don't know the Albert that don't dance, can't hardly laugh, never talk bout nothing, beat you and hid your sister Nettie's letters. Who he?"

"A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something."

"Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?"

"It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all."

"People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't."

"I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to."