It need not discourage us if we are full of doubts. Healthy questions keep faith dynamic. In fact, unless we start with doubts we cannot have a deep-rooted faith. One who believes lightly and unthinkingly has not much of a belief. One who has a faith which is not to be shaken has won it through blood and tears-has worked his or her way from doubt to truth as one who reaches a clearing through a thicket of brambles and thorns.
It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.
A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts.
I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan.
The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds.
We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears - to declare our right to awaken.
Doubts can produce positive side-effects - if you work toward resolving them.
He who doubts, knows - knows as much as can be known.
But all I could see was her. No skill of mine, no artist anywhere, could’ve immortalized how gorgeous she was. It was impossible to believe she’d ever had any doubts about her body. The firelight shone on her skin, golden and perfect, making her look like some radiant goddess of legend. I wanted to kneel before her and offer eternal obedience.
Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.
Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you.
Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.
Have you been tormented with fears and doubts? Bombarded with temptation to sin? Try praising the Lord, and watch Satan flee.
The more knowledge, the clearer what the doubts are.
But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom.