Quotes about Certainty

We usually talk about doubt and unbelief together as if they are one and the same. Actually

Are we dealing with doubt or with unbelief? D

When doubt comes knocking on your door, answer with faith.

You need to depend on God to show you things in such a way that you know—with an inner certainty—that what has been revealed to your mind is correct.

My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite,I laugh at what you call dissolution,And I know the amplitude of time.

Even if today you feel completely unsure that things will work out, keep the faith. God is faithful to His promises.

When you believe something to be true, you are "in one mind" about accepting it; when you do not believe something to be true, you are "in one mind" about rejecting it. "To doubt," Os Guinness writes, "is to waver between the two, to believe and disbelieve at once and to be 'in two minds.

Whenever we make a decision about something, most of us want to be sure, beyond any doubt, of what is absolutely true. That will never happen spiritually. We're talking about God, and there is no way you can get every question about him answered. If you could fathom everything that there is to know about God, he'd be no bigger than your mind—no larger than your intellect—and that would be a small God. The goal isn't to get every answer, but enough answers.

Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

A true Master Player plays as thought the game is already in the past, according to a script whose every detail is known prior to the play itself.

Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior certainty, he felt shaken. My dear man, where's the flaw in [this case]? There isn't one ... There's nothing wrong about it at all, except that the girl's innocent.

A person who can believe all the articles of the Christian faith is not going to boggle over a trifle of adverse evidence.