Quotes About Certainty

Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right.

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.

Never make a calculation until you know the answer.

Tarby was a popular boy, and he was used to being right about everything.

That you are a worldly adult,' she said. 'You have spent your whole life letting go of the innocent dreams that made your childhood so warm and hopeful and full of certainty. Dream by dream you let them go. We all do it, to shield ourselves from disappointment. It's easy to shed them. Not so easy to get them back.

Twain said: "What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

Mark Twain said: "What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

Lack of certainty is precisely what makes conclusions more reliable than the conclusions of those who are certain, because the good scientist will be ready to shift to a different point of view if better evidence or novel arguments emerge. Therefore certainty is not only something of no use but is also in fact damaging, if we value reliability.

action, it would result in rigidity and certainty of interpretation, and would make it much easier for tax practitioners like me to manipulate the law to their clients' advantage. The

The men who knew that he knew what he knew had found him

WE ONLY KNOW two things for certain: "I am," and "I will die.

Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

For by a kind of mutual bond the Lord has joined together the certainty of his Word and of his Spirit so that the perfect religion of the Word may abide in our minds when the Spirit, who causes us to contemplate God's face, shines.

The knowledge of faith consists in assurance rather than in comprehension. . . . We add the words "sure and firm" in order to express a more solid constancy of persuasion.

The salvation of all the elect is not less certain than the power of God is invincible.

The word 'hope' I take for faith; and indeed, hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

For the truth of God is sufficiently solid and certain in itself, and can receive no better confirmation from any other quarter than from itself; but our faith being slender and weak, unless it be supported on every side, and sustained by every assistance, immediately shakes, fluctuates, totters, and falls.

Faith rests not on ignorance, but on knowledge.

because life is not stable except by faith. Let

We are taught that the salvation of all the elect is as certain as that God's power is invincible. Besides

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.

Faith is ultimately a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts by the Holy Spirit

You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.