“faith without doubt is addiction”

“There can be no faith without doubt. No strength without temptation. (Rafael)”

“I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.”

“I'm like a junky without an addiction.”

“Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.”

“Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.”

“Some laymen feel that, out of loyalty, they ought to cling to ancient ways of expressing the Christian faith and that to doubt is to sin. But doubt is not the enemy of faith. It is the growing edge of faith...”

“The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.”

“Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.”

“Neither Germany nor Italy have doubts. Our crisis is not a material crisis. We have lost faith in our destiny…We are like mariners without a pilot.”