Quotes About Certainty

We can stop at the Vilnoc temple and pray for him, if you like." Lencia looked down at her sandals, up at Penric.  "Does it help?" "For a certainty… only at the very end of all journeys

Los detalles corroboraban lo que ella decía que era, y eso se agregaba a una sensación sólida, aunque subliminal, de algo cierto que tal vez escapaba a la paranoia profesional de los que trabajan en seguridad

She and Ray knew, and though Kelly felt no embarrassment, no shame at the knowledge, what she did feel was a sudden certainty that this wasn't a relationship she could endure. Not because of the knowledge. Not because of morality. Because she didn't love them. She loved Rowdy, and the discontent, the subtle anger building inside her for days now over his expectations were clawing at her heart.

Dear, you need to know something about love. When you love someone, you know it. When someone loves you, you know it. There is no question, no wondering, and no guessing. Love is felt within you, and if that is not there then it is very obvious.

You can exclude the excluded middle, but when you ride through, on your way to a lonely and more certain place, out the window you'll see everyone you've ever known living there.

The covenant of works was contingent on the uncertain obedience of a changeable man, while the covenant of grace rests on the obedience of Christ as Mediator, which is absolute and certain.

she understood that nothing is less obvious in a man than that which seems unquestionable.

But in this life on earth we have not only the fear but the certainty that we shall lose it. For one day we must die. Therefore true happiness... lasting, everlasting happiness cannot be our lot on earth. Nor could it be otherwise. For everlasting happiness is only another name for God.

There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.

I have reverence for truth, but I do not know what truth is. I suspect there are many truths, and therefore, I suspect all who claim to have the truth.

We accept the familiar and the usual. We are comfortable with it. We do not want our nice three-dimensional world shattered. We enjoy our certainty, and even Einstein shied from the erratic world of the quantum theory. It suggested a chaos with which he was not prepared to deal.

if he claimed there was a rock in a road at a certain point in a story, his readers knew that if they went to that spot they would find the rock

Certitude leads to violence.

the true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.

It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.

Is that my boy?' As sure as this is my girl!

Ah, if I could only feel assured that it was right and not a blind impulse of a weak woman's heart!' ~Rosamond

John's judgment' on any question was to her always right and the last word.

If she is right we will not gain anything by answering, and if she is wrong time will vindicate us.

We made sure that we were right and had planned for every contingency before we went ahead.

Something would happen or it wouldn't happen, and that was the way of it.