Doubt Quotes - Page 19

• Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Horse, Looks, Goddess

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.239, Bantam

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• On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Stars, Loneliness, Reality

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• I have heard from my father and mother all the answers that faith in God could offer to those who doubt and search for the truth. In our home and in many other homes the eternal questions were more actual than the latest news in the Yiddish newspaper. In spite of all the disenchantments and all my skepticism I believe that the nations can learn much from those Jews, their way of thinking, their way of bringing up children, their finding happiness where others see nothing but misery and humiliation.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Mother, Children, Father

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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• Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

  Agnes Repplier

  Healing, Political, Enjoy

  Agnes Repplier (1916). “Counter-currents”

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• Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.

  Rebecca West

  Cat, Comfort, Mysterious

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• Something is amiss, deeply wrong, something is deeply wrong with the way we're living our lives collectively, with the way we are creating our collective experience on earth. And we are coming to the conclusion that the problem after all is not political, that the problem after all is not economic, that the problem after all cannot be solved with bombs or missiles or bullets, but that the problem in fact is spiritual, that the problem with the world today is as it has always been, a problem of our most basic beliefs. Without a doubt it`s a spiritual awakening and a spiritual revolution.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Creating, Political

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been matched by artistry, intelligence, and comparatively moderated greed. No doubt about it, if style were the one gauge, Chicago would be among the greatest of all the cities of the world.

  Jan Morris

  Cities, Greed, Style

  Jan Morris (1993). “Locations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If we say I love you, it may be received with doubt, for there are times when it is hard to believe. Say I hate you, and the one spoken to believes it instantly, once for all. ... Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Hate, Believe, Love You

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• Laura Alicia Deverell was born on May 10th, 1862, at precisely a quarter past one o'clock on a Thursday morning. Those interested in that pseudo-science astrology or astromancy may trace her life and character, if they wish, among the stars, where no doubt it is all written.

  Susan Ertz

  Morning, Stars, Book

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• I knock unbidden once at every gate--
  If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before
  I turn away--it is the hour of fate,
  And they who follow me reach every state
  Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
  Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate,
  Condemned to failure, penury and woe,
  Seek me in vain and uselessly implore,
  I answer not, and I return no more.

  John James Ingalls

  Sleep, Fate, Opportunity

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• By some fluke, my folks forgot to ask me the question most crucial to ensuring a lifetime of self-doubt: 'What if you fail?

  Lizz Winstead

  Confidence, Self, What If

  Lizz Winstead (2012). “Lizz Free or Die: Essays”, p.46, Penguin

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• If death were the exception and not the rule, and we were not so swiftly to follow, these separations would be intolerably sad. We know no more of our next change of life than we knew of this before we were born into it; but that which we call death is merely change, who can doubt?

  Celia Thaxter

  Life Changing, Would Be, Next

  Celia Thaxter (1896). “Letters of Celia Thaxter”

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• This a sacred rule we find
  Among the nicest of mankind,
  (Which never might exception brook
  From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,)
  To doubt of facts, however true,
  Unless they know the causes too.

  Charles Churchill

  Might, Sacred, Causes

  Charles Churchill (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churcill: With memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.239

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• Some people say I'm the best back in the NFL. That's what drives you: You want everyone saying there's no doubt who's the best.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Nfl, People, Want

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• It's not just back-to-back Super Bowls - it's back-to-back Super Bowls in his first three years, it's back-to-back Super Bowls climbing over the backs of Tom Brady and Peyton Manning... If Russell Wilson wins back-to-back Super Bowls, there is no doubt it puts him amongst the top.

  Michael Irvin

  Winning, Climbing, Years

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• I often use music as a handle for very emotionally explosive substances: love, sex, God, fear, doubt, politics, the economics of the soul - these are daunting thoughts in the back of my mind that I rarely visit without the safety gloves of song.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Sex, Safety

  Source: www.timothywillard.com

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• The real spiritual journey is work. You can make a naïve assertion that you trust in Jesus, but until it is tested a good, oh, 200 times, I doubt very much that it's true.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Jesus, Real

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name.

  George Herbert

  Dark, Names, Secret

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• The sun has a sense of all-pervasive brilliance, which does not discriminate in the slightest. It is the goodness that exists in a situation, in oneself, and in one's world, which is expressed without doubt, hesitation, or regret. The sun principle also includes the notion of blessings descending upon us and creating sacred world. It also represents clarity, without doubt.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Regret, Blessing, Creating

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• The patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christian dispensations, are evidently but the unfolding of one general plan. In the first we see the folded bud; in the second the expanded leaf; in the third the blossom and the fruit. And now, how sublime the idea of a religion thus commencing in the earliest dawn of time; holding on its way through all the revolutions of kingdoms and the vicissitudes of the race; receiving new forms, but always identical in spirit; and, finally, expanding and embracing in one great brotherhood the whole family of man! Who can doubt that such a religion was from God?

  Mark Hopkins

  Christian, Men, Ideas

  Mark Hopkins (2009). “Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity”, p.196, Applewood Books

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• New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Spiritual, New York, Exercise

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• You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self doubt.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Wall, Self, Shadow

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.4, Macmillan

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• No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the object of revelation to make known; still it places the existence and personal attributes of the Deity on such grounds as to render doubts absurd and atheism ridiculous.

  John Herschel

  Atheism, Deities, Ridiculous

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• Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt, with the intellect and disposition, only it is frequently less apparent, and we give ourselves but little trouble to discover it.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Giving, Grace, Littles

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.155

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• The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Gay, Reality, Inspire

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