Quotes About Certainty

In the end, no matter what they say, most folk want a path to follow. Someone to tell 'em it'll all be fine. Someone to tell 'em what to do.

Faith must be shaken from time to time, or it becomes rigid. An excuse for any outrage. I have come to believe that the righteous… should always have doubts.

It did no good to tell himself that it was all in his head if it went on happening anyway. His belief was not required; his disbelief of was no consequence.

Certainty is the sum of need and faith. Wisdom is the remainder of living. Knowledge is the division of doubt by facts. Truth is the product of them all.

God is faithful to His word. All of His promises are "Yes" and "Amen." That means if you will do your part and believe even though it looks impossible, and not let your mind, your emotions, or other people talk you out of it, then God promises in due season and at the right time He will bring it to pass. It may not happen the way you expect it or on your timetable, but God is a faithful God. It will happen.

We walk by faith and not by sight.

Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. HEBREWS 11:1

I'm not worried about it.

It may not happen the way you expect it or no your timetable, but God is a faithful God. It will happen.

When you know the time has been set, you'll have a peace.

Release control. Quit worrying, quit trying to make it happen your way and say, "God, I trust You. I know You're in control of these winds. They can push me forward, backward, left, right, but one thing I'm certain of: where You take me is exactly where I'm supposed to be.

If you had all the facts, you wouldn't need any faith. He's going to send you out not knowing everything.

That's not pride. That's fear. Pride is being so certain in yourself that you're not intimidated by the strangeness of others. Pride is being so certain that you can look after yourself that you don't need to threaten or complain or make malicious whispers behind others' backs.

Never sure, Lisbeth," said Styx, backing away to consider her work. "Certainty is a sign of inferior intellect.

Certainty is a sign of inferior intellect.

When people say our love won't last forever, it sounds like they think anything will.

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

What is this reason, with its universality, infallibility, exuberant certainty and obviousness? An ens rationis, a stuffed dummy which the howling superstition of our unreason endows with divine attributes.

What one believes does not, therefore, have to be proved, and a proposition can be ever so incontrovertibly proven without on that account being believed.

I've made up my mind—don't confuse me with the facts.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.