Faith Does Not Mean Suppressing Honest Doubt

(George MacDonald - found here)

“A man may be possessed of a true, honest, pure, and humble nature, and yet may not be able to believe much that others believe. He may be unable to call that true which does not seem to him true; and because he will not lie to his own soul, he may appear to others as an unbeliever.

...The man who will not pretend to believe what he does not may be nearer the kingdom of heaven than the man who repeats orthodox phrases without life in them.

...Faith is not the absence of questions, but the trust that seeks truth and follows it wherever it leads.

...Questions imply answers. He has put the questions in my heart; He holds the answers in His. I will seek them from Him. I will wait, but not till I have knocked. I will be patient, but not till I have asked. I will seek until I find. He has something for me. My prayer shall go up unto the God of my life.”
~George MacDonald