Quotes about Certainty
Faith is rather a freedom, a permission. It is permitted to be so—that the believer in God's Word may hold on to this Word in everything, in spite of all that contradicts it.
- Karl Barth
So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.
- William Barclay
That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us.
- JC Ryle
Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.
- John Tillotson
The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion
- Elbert Hubbard
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.
- Cormac McCarthy
Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
- GK Chesterton
When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.
- Max Lucado
Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.
- Barack Obama