Emily Dickinson Quotes

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

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

Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

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

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

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

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

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

One percent doubt is zero percent faith.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

It's called faith because it's not knowledge.

Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary.

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, but which I don't have the answer to.

Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

To me, the definition of faith is to fear nothing.

Everyone's got to have a bit of faith.

There is a fine line between faith and confidence. Confidence has a self-reliance. Faith is really about giving in.

When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

Faith doesn't reduce uncertainty. Faith embraces uncertainty.

Doubt is faith's shadow.