Quotes about Certainty

Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.

Chesterton is quoted as saying, "When a man stops believing in God, he doesn't then believe in nothing, he believes anything.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own

The orator persuades by moral character when his speech is delivered in such a manner as to render him worthy of confidence; for we feel confidence in a greater degree and more readily in persons of worth in regard to everything in general, but where there is no certainty and there is room for doubt, our confidence is absolute. But this confidence must be due to the speech itself, not to any preconceived idea of the speaker's character;

And if a man believes nothing, but believes it equally so and not so, how would his state be different from a vegetable's?

For the universal will constantly torture him and say, 'You ought to have talked. Where will you find the certainty that it was not after all a hidden pride which governed your resolution?

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

There need to be some absolutes in life.

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.

Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself. MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.