“Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.”

Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (1973)
Context: If you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

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Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian 1926

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