Quotes about Certainty

For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.

If you believe in your heart, and do not doubt in your mind.

It is certain because it is impossible

Credere quia absurdum est

I believe because it is absurd.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Again, it is self-evident that truth exists. For truth exists if anything at all is true, and if anyone denies that truth exists, he concedes that it is true that it does not exist, since if truth does not exist it is then true that it does not exist.

nothing can be known, save what is true;

One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs." —PHILLIP E. JOHNSON