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"What of the Exodus? That too, is a wonderful story, but from the viewpoint of an historian, it is - to use a word scholars love - problematic. Let's say there are doubts, to say the least, among many scholars, as to whether the Exodus actually occurred. That's a historical issue."
"I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know."
"In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I."
"The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy."
"Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith."
"When you get back on the field and do things, any doubts you've developed leave. The more consistent you become, the fewer doubts you have."
"Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it."
"A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger."
"I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is the weapon that guards against it."
"Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day."
"The fact that so little of the findings of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on it divine inspiration."
"Doubting pleases me no less than knowing"
"The people around you are you. They share your history. They can even write it with you. And when you lose one, there's no doubt you lose some of yourself, however they're lost."
"At no point did I ever doubt I would be as near as anybody could be to England's Elvis Presley. Even from eight or nine years old, I thought, Well, I'll be the greatest rock star in England. I just made up my mind."
"It isn't necessarily easier if you know what it is you're meant to do-- but at least you don't waste time in questioning or doubting. If you're honest--well, that isn't necessarily easier, either. Though I suppose if you're honest with yourself and know what you are, at least you're less likely to feel that you've wasted your life, doing the wrong thing."
"When others doubt the power of Jesus, be the one who asks Him to perform the impossible. He often will."
"'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'"
"From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals."
"I'm more than just a number. I doubt you'll find another"
"To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found."
