Quotes about Certainty
There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
- Paulo Coelho
I know—I knew it then—but I didn't believe it. Belief and knowledge aren't the same thing. Belief is much more powerful.
- Richard Paul Evans
Belief and knowledge aren't the same thing. Belief is much more powerful.
- Richard Paul Evans
Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Nil tam certum quam quod ex dubio certum. Shaking settles and roots.
- Richard Sibbes
Credo quia impossibile
- Richard Wurmbrand
When an engineer has built a bridge, the fact that a cat can pass over the bridge is no proof that the bridge is good. A train must pass over it to prove its strength. The fact that you can be an atheist when everything goes well does not prove the truth of atheism. It does not hold up in moments of great crisis." I
- Richard Wurmbrand
Stop trying, & start trusting.
- Rick Warren
Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.
- Rob Bell
This is because conviction and humility, like faith and doubt, are not opposites; they're dance partners. It's possible to hold your faith with open hands, living with great conviction and yet at the same time humbly admitting that your knowledge and perspective will always be limited.
- Rob Bell
If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?
- Rob Bell
The intellect has a way of building a fence around the heart, cutting us off from what we know to be true in a way that is hard to prove according to the categories in which proof matters.
- Rob Bell