Quotes About Certainty

In a race between danger and indecision, the difference between life and death comes down to confidence. Faith in our abilities, certainty in ourselves and the trust we put in others.

Hope is assurance of the promise..

In this world, two ilk of men exist-those who think they don't need to, and those who think they must. A third alien type exists when indecisiveness is involved.

For me, I can not be right in anything unless there is no counter thoughts that contradict my wrong, in this case my thoughts will be right.

1500 only a madman would have bet that the future belonged to Europe. By 1700 only a madman would have bet that it belonged anywhere else.

The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.

we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties.

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.

No One Is a Relativist at the Bank

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

Worry is a mild form of atheism.

Everything we need to be satisfied in God, the cross has made certain. It cannot fail.

Es imposible demostrar que algo es cierto. Solo podemos descubrir que algo es falso y, así, acercarnos un poco más a la verdad.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." ~ Mark Twain

I've never been convinced that the sun would come up without me barking.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

That's what belief does, Sylvie. Whether something is true or not is beside the point.

When we believe something, we act as if it is true.

We can trust God; we can trust that God is loving. And we can trust that we can—and that we certainly should—take God, in this matter, as in all things, at his word.

There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

For people] to refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

If there are any persons who contest a received opinion, or who will do so if law or opinion will let them, let us thank them for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoice that there is some one to do for us what we otherwise ought, if we have any regard for either the certainty or the vitality of our convictions, to do with much greater labor for ourselves.

To call any proposition certain, while there is any one who would deny its certainty if permitted, but who is not permitted, is to assume that we ourselves, and those who agree with us, are the judges of certainty, and judges without hearing the other side.