Quotes about Certainty
The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.
- Paulo Coelho
fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.
- Paulo Coelho
Firstly, by learning the great lesson of wise men: patience, the certainty that everything - both good and bad - is provisional in this life. Secondly, using this sudden change of course to risk new things in daily life, to do things you always dreamed of.
- Paulo Coelho
We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.
- Paulo Coelho
All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.
- Samuel Johnson
For as nothing can fall to the Earth, but because it has the Nature of the Earth in it; so it is a Truth of the utmost Certainty, that nothing can ascend towards Heaven, or have the least Power to unite with it, but that very Spirit which came down from Heaven, and has the Nature of Heaven in it.
- William Law
God leads you through failure so that when He works you will know for certain you are not responsible for the success.
- Chuck Smith
Conversion is not the source of truth, but the source of certainty with regard to the truth.
- Herman Bavinck
Faith, which forms its positive side is at the same time cognitio and fiducia, a trustful knowledge and a knowing trust.
- Herman Bavinck
One arrives at metaphysics, at a philosophy of religion, only if from another source one has gained the certainty that religion is not just an interesting phenomenon—comparable to belief in witches and ghosts—but truth, the truth that God exists, reveals himself, and is knowable.
- Herman Bavinck
Faith doesn't mean you don't have to do the work; it just means you're absolutely certain the work will pay off.
- Marianne Williamson
Every fact in this world, the God of the Bible claims, has His stamp indelibly engraved upon it.
- Cornelius Van Til