Day life Quote by Thomas Merton

“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude…

— Thomas Merton

“The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort,…

— Anne Lamott

For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to genuine faith,…

— Thomas Merton

“This false “faith” which is what we often live by and which we even come to confuse with our “religion” is subjected to inexorable…

— Thomas Merton

“Faith—or not faith—I don't know what it is—but this feeling has come just as imperceptibly through suffering, and has taken firm root in my…

— Leo Tolstoy

“We state and commend the faith only in so far as we go out and put ourselves inside the doubts of the doubters, the…

— John R.W. Stott

“The pious heart therefore perceives a division in itself, being partly affected with delight through a knowledge of the divine goodness, partly distressed with…

— William Cunningham

The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our…

— Parker J. Palmer

“Sometimes it takes looking back on the situation before we can see how our faith has grown during our trials and doubts.”

— Charlena Jackson

“Faith enables our spiritual sense to function. Where faith is defective the result will be inward insensibility and numbness toward spiritual things.”

— A.W. Tozer

“Faith is the confirmation of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality, perceiving as real fact what is not revealed…

— Sarah Young