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Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.
Sep 29, 2025
Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts.
When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith.
Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith.
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
We cannot know what faith is if we have never had it, and we cannot obtain it as long as we deny it. Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.
Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
Art glows with faith even in its weakest parts. At every moment, writing is an act of self-confidence – the sheerest, most determined, most stubborn self-belief. You CAN have faith and doubt at the same time; the most insecure writer on the planet has faith that shines just as bright as her doubt, and she deserves props for that. It might be hidden deep, she might not feel it and you might not see it, but it’s in there, or she wouldn’t be able to write.
Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to doubt in one God, to doubt that recreates and enlivens faith and doubt that is really disbelief.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Faith precedes the miracle. It has ever been so and shall ever be. It was not raining when Noah was commanded to build an ark. There was no visible ram in the thicket when Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac. Two heavenly personages were not yet seen when Joseph knelt and prayed. First came the test of faith–and then the miracle. Remember that faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other. Cast out doubt. Cultivate faith.
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