Quotes about Certainty

To place your trust in visible things is to live in despair.

The one thing that seems to me morally certain is that this was really a grace, and a great grace.

Faith is not faith until it is tested!

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

The sure path can only lead to death.

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 one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed.

Faith is nothing at all tangible. ... It is simply believing God; and like sight, it is nothing apart from its object. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside, and see whether you have sight, as to look inside to discover whether you have faith.