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Doubt Quotes


"In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops!"



"I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like it. In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They annoy the hell out of me, if you want to know the truth. They were all right after Jesus was dead and all, but while He was alive, they were about as much use to Him as a hole in the head. All they did was keep letting Him down."


"His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, usolved doubt. He is one of those who doesn't want millions, but an answer to their questions."


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


"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."


"I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors, which allowed them to wander in and out of our conversation at will."


"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything."


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


"Doubters only doubt what they doubt."


"My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all."
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