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Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt. -- Warren G. Bennis
Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts. -- Robert H. Schuller
Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe. -- Hermann Hesse
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. -- Lillian Smith
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. -- Jennifer Michael Hecht
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. -- Thomas S. Monson
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. -- Rob Bell
Doubt is faith's shadow. -- Jo Nesbo
Faith lives in honest doubt. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
faith without doubt is addiction -- Salman Rushdie
Doubt is the vestibule of faith. -- Charles Caleb Colton
One percent doubt is zero percent faith. -- Oprah Winfrey
Doubt is but another element of faith. -- Saint Augustine
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Where doubt is, there faith has no power. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith. -- Gayle Forman
Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary. -- Philippe Petit
Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith. -- Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself. -- Paul Tillich
Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith. -- Nawal El Saadawi
Do not doubt thyself, have faith in thy soul. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. -- Robert Browning
Knowledge never springs from faith. It springs from doubt. -- Humayun Azad
Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt. -- Agnes Repplier
You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt. -- Barack Obama
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The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty. -- Abigail Van Buren
To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. -- Blaine Lee Pardoe
Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin'. -- Howard Frank Mosher
Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin. -- Howard Frank Mosher
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. -- William James
Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education. -- Wilson Mizner
He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith. -- Robert Boyle
Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Don't doubt your faith; doubt your doubts for they are unreliable. -- T. B. Joshua
Doubt is a necessity of the mind, faith of the heart. -- Comtesse Diane
When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith.... -- E.A. Bucchianeri
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. -- Wilson Mizner
Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question. -- Rosemary Clement-Moore
There can be no faith without doubt. No strength without temptation. (Rafael) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
FAITH receives more than it asks. DOUBT loses more than it disbelieved. -- Beth Moore
Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. -- Paul Tillich
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. -- Richard P. Feynman
To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt. -- William James
Faith no doubt moves mountains, but not necessarily to where we want them. -- Mason Cooley
You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt. -- Thomas Merton
Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. -- Paul Tillich
Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith. -- Robert Breault
We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Faith is blind...to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God. -- S. D Gordon
I'm not embarrassed by my faith, and I'm also not embarrassed by my doubt. -- John Green
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. -- Khalil Gibran
Faith can remove a mountain, but doubt can put it back in place again -- Tage Danielsson
Faith talks in the language of God. Doubt talks in the language of man. -- E.W. Kenyon
Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end. -- Brad Warner
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. -Miguel de Unamuno, philosopher and writer (1864-1936) -- Miguel de Unamuno
The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man. -- Pico Iyer
Faith sees the opportunity; doubt sees the obstacles. What you see is what you get! -- James MacDonald
Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith. -- Emile M. Cioran
The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith. -- Thomas Merton
Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts. -- Orson Scott Card
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. -- Henry David Thoreau
Beyond a doubt, they perish eternally who do not keep the Catholic faith entire and unchanged. -- Pope Gregory XVI
There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Fannie Flagg
In the present age doubt has become immune to faith and faith has dissociated itself from doubt. -- Gabriel Vahanian
Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith. -- Thomas S. Monson
What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt. -- Robert Breault
Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all? -- Philip Yancey
To faith doubt is a sin, to science a virtue, to love a cancer and to life, suicide -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful. -- Paul Tillich
Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt. -- J.D. Greear
Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael) -- Ellis Peters
Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either. -- Paul Tournier
To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two? -- Honore de Balzac
When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes. -- Thomas S. Monson
I think most religious people experience just as much doubt as they do faith; they just don't admit it. (13) -- Elna Baker
And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt. -- Jodi Picoult
Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other. -- Thomas S. Monson
Doubt is poison. It leads to a loss of faith in yourself, and in all that's good and true. -- Dean Koontz
We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them -- Sterling W Sill
Doubt is an old disease. Faith is an old medicine. Compassion is an old doctor. Concern is an old nurse. -- Sri Chinmoy
Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt. -- William Arthur Ward
Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both. -- Criss Jami
Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt. -- Salman Rushdie
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith. -- Paulo Coelho
In a household of faith, there is no need to fear or doubt. Choose to live by faith and not fear. -- Kevin W. Pearson
Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves. -- Richard M. Nixon
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt - just absolute confidence in yourself. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths -- Moses Mendelssohn
Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Obey your soul, have perfect faith in yourself. Never think of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as one who makes mistakes. -- Wallace D. Wattles
God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear. -- Pierce Brosnan
Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. -- Lauren F. Winner
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear. -- Paul H. Dunn
Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt; We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without? -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal faith of our president, Mr. Obama. -- Franklin Graham
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. -- Christopher Hitchens
There are people who wonder if faith is real. I can tell you, in my family there is not a second of doubt. -- Ted Cruz
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith. -- Ernest Holmes
Have faith in your skills, negative thoughts kill. Self-doubt will kill your dreams before others do. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. -- Suzy Kassem
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience. -- John Ortberg
Faith makes you stable and steady. It brings out the totality in you. Consolidation of your energy is faith. Dissemination of energy is doubt. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Emerging church leaders are not impressed by those who defend the Christian faith by promoting definitive answers to convince those who doubt the faith. -- Eddie Gibbs
Fear and doubt do not kill courage and faith; they birth them. You cannot have courage without fear. You cannot have faith without doubt. -- Steve Maraboli
While we want doubts to give way to faith, we should be merciful and patient with those who are still in a doubt-troubled place. -- Timothy Keller
Let me say here and now that faith has never done me any good, only doubt. So that is what has become my testament. -- Jo Nesbo
Doubt is a virus that attacks our self-esteem, productivity and confidence. Faith that you and your life are perfectly unfolding is the strongest vaccine. -- Sean Stephenson
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? -- R. Scott Bakker
The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith. -- T. S. Eliot
The strength of your faith is not measured by the absence of doubt, but by the faithfulness of your life in the face of doubt. -- Nicky Gumbel
Doubt is a lack of confidence or assurance that God will keep his promises. Faith is an active confidence that God's promises are always true. -- James MacDonald
I say, choose faith. Choose faith over doubt, choose faith over fear, choose faith over the unknown and the unseen, and choose faith over pessimism. -- Dallin H. Oaks

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