Quotes about Certainty

Most of us want to be proven right more than we want to know what's true. We aren't on truth quests. We're on confirmation quests.

Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty.

People will die for their religious beliefs if they sincerely believe they're true, but people won't die for their religious beliefs if they know their beliefs are false.

Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist. I don't have faith in two plus two equals four or in the noonday sun. Those are beyond question. But Scripture describes God as a hidden God. You have to make an effort of faith to find him. There are clues you can follow.

Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe that "Unless I believe, I shall not understand." —ANSELM OF CANTERBURY1

Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to DO (obey) God's will that brings certainty.

Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the nonexistent.

The natural man must know in order to believe; The spiritual man must believe in order to know

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

We must, however, reaffirm what we know to be true, even when we don't feel it to be true. This will help us to live more by faith than by feelings.