Quotes About Certainty

the Catholic Faith, more certain to him than the existence of himself: it was true and alive. He might be damned, but God reigned.

supernatural Religion involves an absolute authority, and that Private Judgment in matters of faith is nothing else than the beginning of disintegration

These things were as the bones of the Universe—facts beyond doubting—if they were not true, nothing anywhere was anything but a dream.

For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth. – Job 19:25

The preacher John R. Rice said, "Worry is putting question marks where God has put periods.

The simple act of trusting God can be defined as acting as if God were going to keep His promises, however bleak the current circumstances may appear.

Sentir la necesidad de convencer a los demás de que uno tiene razón es algo que procede de la religión. Yo simplemente me contento con saber que tengo razón, aunque los demás no lo sepan.

I have described to you why God must exist—or, at least, must have at one time existed—in mathematical terms that come as close to certainty as anything in science possibly could. And still you deny his existence." The pain was growing worse. It would subside, of course. "Yes," I said. "I deny God's existence.

That is fine. Feeling a need to convince others that you are right also is something that comes from religion, I think; I am simply content to know that I am right, even if others do not know it.

I'll never say it another time, to anyone, and I ask you to remember it: In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

U jednom svijetu punom dvosmislenosti ovakva se izvjesnost doga?a samo jedanput i nikada više, ma koliko života ?ovjek proživio.

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another.

This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime.

The burden of proof is now on the doubters.

In other words, what we know for sure is entirely limited, and all the rest is basically opinion.

law of noncontradiction, the "law of causality," and "the basic reliability of sense perception," which, they contend, "no one denies … regularly and consistently,"22 and which, for them apparently, are more non-negotiably certain at the beginning of their quest for God and truth than God himself is.

And if we fail to recognize within the Scriptures our Master's voice speaking his infallible truth to us from his world to our world, we destroy ourselves not only epistemically but also personally, for we abandon the only foundation for the certainty of knowledge and the only "meaning base" by which we may truly know the One infinite, personal God and thereby ourselves as persons of dignity and worth.2

If we require some kind of sign, or "proof," for our belief in God, then we believe, or place our tust, not in God but in the sign or proof.

Only faith is sufficient.

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.

Credo quia absurdum – I believe because it is absurd.

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you are right. As one grows older, this is easier still.

when doing science (or perhaps when doing anything at all in a society as judgmental as our own), be very careful and very certain before pronouncing something to be a norm - because at that instant, you have made it supremely difficult to ever again look objectively at an exception to that supposed norm.