Quotes about Certainty

And yet there is not in France, with its rich variety of soil and climate, a blade, a leaf, a root, a sprig, a peppercorn, which will grow to maturity under conditions more certain than those that have produced this horror. Crush

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

the self-serving, doubt-quenching, certainty-seeking faith that these folks are choosing to pursue is not faith as it's taught in Scripture....the faith that God's people are called to embrace is one that encourages people to wrestle with God, to not be afraid of questions, and to act faithfully in the face of uncertainty.

If you want to do something and you feel in your bones that it's the right thing to do, do it. Intuition is often as important as the facts. 663

A healthy skepticism is good, even God-given. However, a need to cynically dismiss anything we cannot personally verify is arrogance.

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

When you know something, really know something, it tends to stand the test of time.

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.

When we live by faith, we believe that God has everything under control. But if we start to worry, how we live says the opposite.

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.