Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and movi…

Frederick Buechner
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. ✨ Frederick Buechner (2007). Wunschdenken: ein religiöses ABC, p.128, Theologischer Verlag Zürich
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. ✨ Frederick Buechner (2007). Wunschdenken: ein religiöses ABC, p.128, Theologischer Verlag Zürich

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