Quotes About Certainty

Faith is belief based on spiritual conviction instead of proof. You could say that the nature of my convictions has changed recently.

In the end, the truth doesn't matter.

You already knew the right thing to do. You just needed someone to confirm it for you.

Belief in an infallible God does not make one infallible.

His heart pounding with fear and elation, and his head humming with the fierce certainty of a sure thing, he kissed her. She responded as though for her too a certainty had proved out, and in the midst of her hair and lips and long arms encircling him, Smoky added a treasure of great price to the small store of his wisdom.

Truth is not the same for everyone whereas facts are.

People crave certainty. And control. We spend our lives erecting coping mechanisms, little games we play to preserve the illusion of safety.

I felt a tightness on the skin. A visceral type of cognition that I had experienced before. But this was stronger, more immediate: the certainty of something out there, just beyond the threshold of consciousness. It was the experience of haragei.

Amen"—so be it, there is nothing more to be said.

In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.

These guys, they were so sure of their places in life--so deeply confident of their merit and their future--they didn't need any kind of front at all.

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.

Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

Nothing is promised in life except death.

I believe in God, not as a theory but as a fact more real than life itself.

I won't be skating for the rest of my life, that's for sure

Faith to me is having absolute certainty that God is in control of my life and that He has my best interests at heart.

... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.

Nothing in life is guaranteed, including government guarantees.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.