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Quotes About Certainty

I so look forward to the day, Jesus, when every knee will bow and every tongue confess that you are Lord, to the glory of God the Father. It's going to be a loud and large day. But this Christmas Eve I say to myself, "Be still, my soul . . . behold calm glory, savor mild mercy, worship your newborn King with quiet certainty." I pray in Jesus' great and gracious name. Amen.
~ Scotty Smith
Nobody, Nobody can be sure they're always right. The ones who are fullest of themselves that way Are the emptiest vessels.
~ Seamus Heaney
If your faith in reality is based on the belief that time moves in one direction only, the foundation of your faith will be shattered by the experience of the future.
~ Alberto Villoldo
It's time to believe in what you know.
~ Alexi Murdoch
she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.
~ Anais Nin
There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you.
~ Anne Stevenson
Are you crazy?" I said. "Crazy about you." "Patch!" "Don't worry, we've got time." "How do you know?" He staggered back a step, with his hand over his heart. "Your lack of faith hurts.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
There is no advice that I can give you, you will just have to trust yourself that when the time comes, you'll make the right decision.
~ Cecelia Ahern
I don't need to be born again. I got it right the first time.
~ Dennis Miller
Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
~ Cormac McCarthy
It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.
~ Eric Hoffer
Was there ever a time when the majority was right?
~ Robert A. Heinlein
But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.
~ William Butler Yeats
Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.
~ William J. Clinton
Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.
~ William James
I'd learned a long time ago that you can't prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it's the devil to prove you didn't do something.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.
~ Levon Helm
Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same
~ Michele Jaffe
There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.
~ Mark Twain
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
~ Mark Twain
Having faith is believing in something you just know ain't true.
~ Mark Twain
If it is a miracle any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary.
~ Mark Twain
I reck'n I knows what I knows.
~ Mark Twain