Lord, I believe; help my unbelief'... is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith.
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground and can never soar.
In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope.
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.
She hated that little voice inside her head. Like the Seelie Queen, it planted doubts where there shouldn't be doubts, asked questions that had no answer.
But, oh, when gloomy doubts prevail,I fear to call thee mine;The springs of comfort seem to fail,And all my hopes decline.Yet, gracious God, where shall I flee?Thou art my only trust;And still my soul...
Success comes to the people who never ever doubt themselves.
The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
To teach how to live with uncertainty yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.
I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.
Gardening is an exercise in optimism.
Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence.
Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the handmaiden of truth.Doubt is the key to the door of knowledge; it is the servant of discovery.A belief which may not be questioned binds us to error,for there is...
The successful man is he who when he sees that no further certainty is attainable promptly decides on the most probable side as if he were completely sure it was right.
To end with certainty we must begin with doubting.
If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people I would say to myself "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the clever...
To be ambitious for wealth and yet always expecting to be poor to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy whi...
The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams illusions wars peace love hate all that.... Accept that it's unknown and it's plain...
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.
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