Do Not Create Doubts
Story★★★★It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them, nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them. — SPURGEON Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt. — SELECTED Oh, how this tyrant, doubt, torments my breast! My thoughts, like birds, who, frighten’d from their nest, Around the place where all was hush’d before, Flutter, and hardly nestle any more. — Otway Artful doubts and reasoning be Nailed with Jesus to the tree. — Srrecrep People, when asked if they are Christians, give some of the strangest answers you ever heard.
Some will say if you ask them: “Well-well-well, I-I hope I am.” Suppose a man should ask me if I am an American. Would I say:“Well, I-well, I-I hope I am”’.?
— Moopy
Moopy.
The point
Collection of sayings on doubt as betrayal, faith vs hope, and the question of knowing versus hoping we are Christian.