Quotes About Certainty

This is not an act

We are always to look to God; His word is not Yea and Nay, but Yea and Amen.—Selected Messages, bk. 2, pp. 394, 395.

God will never remove every occasion for doubt. He gives sufficient evidence on which to base faith, and if this is not accepted, the mind is left in darkness.

When people say they love you, you just have to decide to believe them, because you'll never know for sure.

I guess I'd just been thinking about it for so long that I forgot changing your gender was not even a question for most people. They just took for granted being a boy or a girl. I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be so sure of yourself.

You never know anything until you've proved it right." "Nonsense. You can't order life mathematically," retorted the Judge. "Most of the time you 'know' things without factual evidence." "I'm Coleridge's 'thought-benighted skeptic,'" said Ellery unhappily. "I question everything. Sometimes I even question the results of my own thinking. My mental life is very involved.

What is proof?" asked Ellery. "It's merely the clothing of what we already know to be true. Anybody can prove anything, given sufficient will to believe.

It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.

Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael)

I don't make impulsive decisions. You are my one impulse, and yet I know in my gut that it's the right one.

6] Then the ambassador asked him, "Can you make it true that you yourself are insane?" The provider of arguments said, "I could, but I don't want to. Who isn't insane?" Then people asked the provider of arguments to say from the heart whether he was joking or whether he really believed that there is no truth except what people make out to be true. He replied, "That is what I believe, I swear." Afterward

A faithless person is anybody who doesn't believe that God can do and change all things. On the other hand. A faithful person is anybody who believes undoubtedly that God can do and change all things. Oh! yes, God almighty can do and change all things effortlessly and unquestionably as well. Besides, impossibility is an illusion as far as he (God) is concerned. Thus, never be under the illusion that God cannot do or change all things.

Faith is a strong belief that all things are possible. Oh! yes, all things are possible with God and time. Thus, you've got to believe just that. For, until you believe undoubtedly, you are faithless and never faithful. -Emeasoba George

Faith is an unwavering belief in the unseen or unseeable being (God Almighty). -Emeasoba George

Faith is simply, believing undoubtedly in possibilities and positivities even if/when it seems unreasonable to believe in them.

Faith isn't believing what you can see. Rather, it's believing undoubtedly what you've not yet seen. Yes that is it, although many do think and say seeing is believing. But, I'm proud to inform you, that is not faith at all. Because, an actual faith is all about being self convinced about something even when it is not yet evident.

I'm Noah now, and really, I always have been. It's not my fault no one believed in Noah until he gave them no other choice.

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

numai in indoiala sunt profetii si fanaticii cu adevarat umani.

N'a de convictions que celui qui n'a rien approfondi

El hastío es un vértigo, pero un vértigo tranquilo, monótono; es la revelación de la insignificancia universal, es la certidumbre llevada hasta el estupor o hasta la suprema clarividencia de que no se puede, de que no se debe hacer nada en este mundo ni en el otro, que no existe ningún mundo que pueda convenirnos y satisfacernos.

Each generation lives in the absolute: it behaves as if it had reached the apex if not the end of history.

patíbulos, calabouços e masmorras só prosperam à sombra de uma fé - dessa necessidade de crer que infestou o espírito para sempre. O diabo empalidece comparado a quem dispõe de uma verdade, de sua verdade.

We dismiss the skeptic, we speak of an "automatism of doubt," while we never say of a believer that he has fallen into an "automatism of faith." Yet faith is much more mechanical than doubt, which has the excuse of proceeding from surprise to surprise — inside perplexity, it is true.