Ivan Ilyin. Axioms of religious experience (№ 389016)

And that's when the man begins his experience of the struggle for religious identity, it is the more hope of success than more intensively than deeper than genuine and sincere his question. Then it becomes a call, a search, a request, a prayer. He "requests" and he is "given"; it "seeks" and "finds"; he "knocks" and to him "be opened" (Matt. 7:7-8). Real religious doubt is, above all, an intense and genuine desire to see God. Soul, so doubters can be neither indifferent nor passive: it is the living question its focus on the Subject and focus in His direction; this is the kind of subject will, it is intentional as religious experience. This doubt actively, aggressively; it is in anxiety and tension; it is important, it needs to be resolved in a positive or in a negative way.