Quotes about Certainty

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve the Faith they owe; when earnestly they seek such proof, conclude, they then begin to faile.

The appearance of an angel from heaven could add nothing to the certainty of the declarations he has already put into our hands.

Welcome to the human race. It is somehow essential to human life as God has ordained it that we can know the final score of yesterday but not tomorrow. It doesn't mean we're condemned to anxiety. It does mean this: If you're looking for certainty, you've chosen the wrong species. You can walk by faith, but not by sight; not down here.

The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.

Theologian Lesslie Newbigin writes that we live in an age that favors doubt over faith.4 We often speak of "blind faith" and "honest doubt.

There's a difference between suspecting a thing and finally knowing it for certain.

There will be very few occasions when you are absolutely certain about anything. You will consistently be called upon to make decisions with limited information. That being the case, your goal should not be to eliminate uncertainty. Instead, you must develop the art of being clear in the face of uncertainty.

I could never describe it to anyone how I knew, but there was no mistaking it. One moment, I was walking along undecided - and the next moment, I knew that it was God's will for me to go to America. I don't think I could describe it any more accurately.

We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.

You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.