Os Guinness, in my oppinion, has written the best book on doubt in print (from emotional reasons to intellectual reasons). God in the Dark was so refreshing to me. It brought clarity to an often murky discussion.

Here are two quotes from the book:

“Faith does not feed on thin air but on facts. Its instinct is to root itself in truth, to earth itself in reality, and this distinguishes faith from fantasy, the object of faith from the figment of the imagination.”

“Doubt is not the opposite of faith, nor is it the same as unbelief. Doubt is a state of mind in suspension between faith and unbelief so that it is neither of them wholly and it is each only partly....So while doubt is a state of suspension between faith and unbelief, unbelief is a state of mind that is closed against God, an attitude of the heart that disobeys God as much as it disbelieves the truth. Unbelief is the result of a settled choice.”

For a short article I wrote on dealing with doubt, click here.