Quotes about Uncertainty

Faith says, I trust You even though I don't understand.

They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?

If you want to be successful as a leader, you need to learn to become comfortable with uncertainty and make shifts continually.

I love the story of the salesman who sat looking through the window of a hotel restaurant. Outside raged a blinding snowstorm. "Do you think the roads will be clear enough in the morning to travel?" he asked his waiter. "That depends," the waiter replied. "Are you on salary or commission?

I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.

What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

Never underestimate the desire to bolt.

Can you hear Destiny laugh as she tiptoes toward you? Destiny is heartless.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

But in so many ways I'm still that kid, not sure exactly how to be emotionally intimate with a girl without feeling weak, not sure my work is good enough, not sure if the people who are clapping would really like me if they got to know me.

Most of us struggle with the opposite. We don't bring up the negative stakes enough and so the story we're telling falls flat. Remember, if there are no stakes, there is no story.