Quotes About Certainty

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

In accepting or rejecting opinions, a man must not be influenced by love or hatred of him who offers the opinions, but only by the certainty of the truth.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian Apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

faith without doubt is addiction

Gala Gradiva - 'tista, ki hodi spredaj, 'brezmadežna intuicija' - je imela spet prav. Danes lahko re?em, da izmed vseh mojih prepri?anj le dveh ne zmorem razložiti s svojo voljo do mo?i: eno je znova najdena vera leta 1949, drugo pa, da bo imela Gala glede moje prihodnosti vedno prav.

I'm afraid of an extra face in the mirror and sudden nights with voices, the deep certainty of things. (from Parca )

Theology is ignorance with wings.

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

But, she remembers, you always have to assume that the present is real. It's the only way to remain sane. It's the only way to remain ethical.

Until you can prove otherwise, always assume you're in reality.

faith is only as good as its object.

this is what we hope for, the objective reality of our future inheritance, not the feeling of hope or expectation in our hearts. So

Belief just takes steady convincing.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear- About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again Two hundred more.

I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.

I do not greatly care whether I have been right or wrong on any point, but I care a good deal about knowing which of the two I have been.

the baby must be either a boy or girl — this much, at any rate, was clear.

Cuando muera, lo haré con la plena y segura esperanza de que no habrá resurrección, pero esa muerte me aportará una paz absoluta.

Faith: You can do very little with it..But you can do nothing without it..!!

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.