Natalie Clifford Barney Quotes

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

Faith is Doubt.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.

Doubt is faith's shadow.

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Sometimes I believe...Sometimes I really do believe.

I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.

Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts.

I choose to believe in God, but I have serious doubts.

if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

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.

All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.