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"I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above."
"We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know.""
"A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth."
""Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed.""
"The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts."
"Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us."
"We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true."
"Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms."
"There are two modes of knowledge: through argument and through experience. Argument brings conclusions and compels us to concede them, but it does not cause certainty nor remove doubts that the mind may rest in truth, unless this is provided by experience."
"I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment."
"The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening"
"Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection."
"Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny ."
"I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am"
"Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure."
"They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure."
"Doubt is one of the names of intelligence."
"It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion."
"I release all fears and doubts. I accept myself and create peace in my mind and heart. I now choose to free myself from all destructive fears and doubts. I am loved and I am safe."
"It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve."
