Quotes about Certainty
Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
- Philip Yancey
Can we live now "as if" God is loving, gracious, merciful, and all-powerful, even while the blinders of time are obscuring our vision? The
- Philip Yancey
What is faith, after all, but believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse
- Philip Yancey
Even when everything seems out of control, God remains firmly in control.
- Philip Yancey
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you," he said.
- Philip Yancey
In order to be prepared to hope in what does not deceive, we must first lose hope in everything that deceives. —Georges Bernanos (in Reason for Being by Jacques Ellul)
- Philip Yancey
As Paul Tournier said, "Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.
- Philip Yancey
In the end, only the truth will survive.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
But that didn't happen. Somehow, he was standing on solid ground that looked anything but solid.
- Priscilla Shirer
We must take God with an as-is sticker on Him. No return policy.
- Priscilla Shirer
Sometimes--well, maybe always--we just have to take it on faith that God knows what He's doing.
- Deborah Raney
A faith based on miracles will quickly fade, dependent on the next miracle. Such an attitude cannot even be called faith.
- Dennis Prager