Quotes about Uncertainty

Sometimes God seemed as close as his wife or children. Sometimes he had no sense of God's presence, no faith to lean on. God is wild, you know, he wrote. We're not in charge.

For a society that seems adrift, without moorings, I know of no better place to drop an anchor of faith.

Safe?" he said, a sudden lightness in his tone. "It may or may not be safe, but it will most definitely be worth it.

You may not understand what all's happening in your life right now, but any possible explanation pales in comparison to what you do know because of your faith in God's goodness and assurance.

But that didn't happen. Somehow, he was standing on solid ground that looked anything but solid.

Sometimes--well, maybe always--we just have to take it on faith that God knows what He's doing.

2 Chronicles 20:12 NIV) Here are the key phrases: "...we have no power...we do not know what to do..." So they had to turn to God for supernatural help and they knew the way to turn. They renounced the natural to invoke the supernatural.

The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.

Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end.

We can't predict what type of sustaining graces God will provide for us. And we can't expect that the kind of sustaining grace someone else receives will be the same kind of care we will receive. We can only trust that the provision will come.

Keep in mind, just because you don't know the answer doesn't mean that one does not exist. You simply haven't discovered it yet.

Complex faith does not kill giants. It imprisons us in "wonder" land where we try to figure out what we cannot change and hesitate to make any move.