Quotes about Certainty

The salvation of all the elect is not less certain than the power of God is invincible.

But however they may sport with its uncertainty, had they to seal their own doctrine with their blood, and at the expense of life, it would be seen what value they put upon it. Very different is our confidence - a confidence which is not appalled by the terrors of death, and therefore not even by the judgment - seat of God.

The word 'hope' I take for faith; and indeed, hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

For the truth of God is sufficiently solid and certain in itself, and can receive no better confirmation from any other quarter than from itself; but our faith being slender and weak, unless it be supported on every side, and sustained by every assistance, immediately shakes, fluctuates, totters, and falls.

Faith rests not on ignorance, but on knowledge.

because life is not stable except by faith. Let

We are taught that the salvation of all the elect is as certain as that God's power is invincible. Besides

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.

Faith is ultimately a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts by the Holy Spirit

Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.