Faith and Doubt
Over lunch with coworkers, I mentioned that my agnostic wife had been praying for guidance.
One colleague asked, "To whom do agnostics pray?"
Another answered, "To whom it may concern."
Brian Surkan, Marietta, Georgia
"It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work. And that when we no longer know which way to go, we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings." Wendell Berry
"Faith is not being sure. It's not being sure,
but betting with your last cent." Mary Jean Irion
Faith is not making religious-sounding noises in the daytime.
It is asking your inmost self questions at night
and then getting up and going to work." Mary Jean Irion
"Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself." Author Unknown
“Those who say that having a childlike faith means not asking questions haven’t met too many children.” Rachel Held Evans
“It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. By this worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life’s duties, problems, successes and failures. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world. That, I think, is faith.” Dietrich Bonhoffer
“Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.” Anne Lamott
One colleague asked, "To whom do agnostics pray?"
Another answered, "To whom it may concern."
Brian Surkan, Marietta, Georgia
"It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work. And that when we no longer know which way to go, we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings." Wendell Berry
"Faith is not being sure. It's not being sure,
but betting with your last cent." Mary Jean Irion
Faith is not making religious-sounding noises in the daytime.
It is asking your inmost self questions at night
and then getting up and going to work." Mary Jean Irion
"Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself." Author Unknown
“Those who say that having a childlike faith means not asking questions haven’t met too many children.” Rachel Held Evans
“It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. By this worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life’s duties, problems, successes and failures. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world. That, I think, is faith.” Dietrich Bonhoffer
“Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.” Anne Lamott