Quotes about Certainty

The serene confidence which a Christian feels in four aces.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Replace what you don't know about the future with what you do know about God!

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

Your goal is not to know every detail of the future. Your goal is to hold the hand of the One who does and never, ever let go.

Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.

I don't have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don't have to understand how He's going to bring it to pass. That's His responsibility. My job is to simply believe that He will.

Anyone can believe when God is already moving. But real faith is when you step out when it seems that God is not moving.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

Faith is a living, unshakable confidence in God's grace; it is so certain that someone would die a thousand times for it.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times

And what is it that preachers do, to this very day? Do they interpret and expound the Scriptures? Yet if the Scripture they expound is uncertain, who can assure us that heir exposition is certain? Another new exposition? And who will expound the exposition? At this rate we will go on forever. In short, if Scripture is obscure or ambiguous, what part is there in God's giving it to us?