Quotes about Certainty

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.

Decisions are not up for negotiation.

I prayed about it consistently - that God would direct me in the right path and that, when it would happen, I would know that I'm in the right place.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

I believe only in the mathematics.

I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.

I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.

God is not intimidated by such hard and testing questions, nor is he unable to answer them. But we must come with the right kind of skepticism—not the kind that refuses to believe anything at all, but the kind that is committed to believe only what is really true.

John was not a logician, but a seer; not a reasoner, but a mystic; he does not argue, but assert; he arrives at conclusions with one bound, as by direct intuition.

Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.