doubts

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6d91c62	Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.	writing self-doubt doubts	William Goldman
f6fad96	She hated that little voice inside her head. Like the Seelie Queen, it planted doubts where there shouldn't be doubts, asked questions that had no answer.	doubts city-of-lost-souls clary-fray the-mortal-instruments	Cassandra Clare
f9b8d0f	He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.	doubts decisions	J.K. Rowling
40a2fb5	Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.	doubts decisions	J.K. Rowling
2006dee	Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.	mankind silence men secret strength doubting efforts toil wise-men doubts strive effort	Bram Stoker
a45934e	Lord, I believe; help my unbelief'... is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith.	prayer faith doubts weakness humility	Flannery O'Connor
e0fe033	I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I'd rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.	doubts monsters	Gregory Maguire
8a6ae1f	Although claiming my true identity as a child of God, I still live as though the God to whom I am returning demands an explanation. I still think about his love as conditional and about home as a place I am not yet fully sure of. While walking home, I keep entertaining doubts about whether I will be truly welcome when I get there. As I look at my spiritual journey, my long and fatiguing trip home, I see how full it is of guilt about the past and worries about the future. I realize my failures and know that I have lost the dignity of my sonship, but I am not yet able to fully believe that where my failings are great, 'grace is always greater.' Still clinging to my sense of worthlessness, I project for myself a place far below that which belongs to the son, (p. 52).	identity god love sonship worthlessness doubts failures grace dignity worry worries home son failure guilt	Henri J.M. Nouwen

6d91c62

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.

writing self-doubt doubts

William Goldman

f6fad96

She hated that little voice inside her head. Like the Seelie Queen, it planted doubts where there shouldn't be doubts, asked questions that had no answer.

doubts city-of-lost-souls clary-fray the-mortal-instruments

Cassandra Clare

f9b8d0f

He felt that he was still groping in the dark; he had chosen his path but kept looking back, wondering whether he had misread the signs, whether he should not have taken the other way.

doubts decisions

J.K. Rowling

40a2fb5

Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.

doubts decisions

J.K. Rowling

2006dee

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

mankind silence men secret strength doubting efforts toil wise-men doubts strive effort

Bram Stoker

a45934e

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief'... is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith.

prayer faith doubts weakness humility

Flannery O'Connor

e0fe033

I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I'd rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.

doubts monsters

Gregory Maguire

8a6ae1f

Although claiming my true identity as a child of God, I still live as though the God to whom I am returning demands an explanation. I still think about his love as conditional and about home as a place I am not yet fully sure of. While walking home, I keep entertaining doubts about whether I will be truly welcome when I get there. As I look at my spiritual journey, my long and fatiguing trip home, I see how full it is of guilt about the past and worries about the future. I realize my failures and know that I have lost the dignity of my sonship, but I am not yet able to fully believe that where my failings are great, 'grace is always greater.' Still clinging to my sense of worthlessness, I project for myself a place far below that which belongs to the son, (p. 52).

identity god love sonship worthlessness doubts failures grace dignity worry worries home son failure guilt

Henri J.M. Nouwen