Quotes about Certitude

It is important to know that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but in fact, certitude and the demand for certitude!

We've turned faith into a right to certitude when, in fact, this Trinitarian mystery is whispering quite the opposite: we have to live in exquisite, terrible humility before reality.

I worry about "true believers" who cannot carry any doubt or anxiety at all, as Thomas the Apostle and Mother Teresa learned to do. People who are so certain always seem like Hamlet's

Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.

I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.

I don't believe. I know.

I believe only in the mathematics.