Quotes About Certainty

Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us … did not become "Yes and no."… For every one of God's promises is "Yes" in Him. 2 Corinthians 1:19–20

Nothing is like experiencing the affirming, undeniable nod of God. So I'm praying that He will do something obvious to show you that you're on the right track—so that when seasons come with fewer evidences, you'll have the unwavering assurance that God is believable. Go into this new year believing God!

We see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief. Hebrews 3:19

God may never part the oceans, but I'll stand my ground. My faith is not in my beliefs but in the One I've found. His word is sure, when I am not

God can do what He says He can do precisely

God can do what He says He can do precisely because He is who He says He is.

If we can't count on God, for crying out loud, who can we count on?

We must cease to accept the visible as if it's the only possible solution and start believing what God says over what man sees.

We can rest assured that what God has for us— even in our earthly future—is not identical to our present.

Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen. Hebrews 11:1

Then Jesus said to him, "'If You can?' Everything is possible to the one who believes." Mark 9:23

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence.

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

Even the things we are certain about are only an illusion. We are born with a female side and a male side, and these two sides are always fighting and challenging each other. This is why anything we want to do, we have the other side of telling us not to do it, to be careful about it.

I'm always confident when I sign up for a project that it's going to be good. That's why I sign up for it.

If I signed it that is the way it really happened. I don't know of any individuals who are saying anything different. I have no idea what is going on with that.

On September 11, people were shaken, but they quickly calmed down. There was a flash of awareness, which lasted a few fractions of a second. People could feel that something was happening. Then a blanket of silence covered up the crack in our certainty of safety.

Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.

A writer is a writer when he says he is.

I believe with unshakeable faith that there will always be something in the box.

Now the brave man. In dark hours he endures silently, uncomplaining. Reverencing the round of heaven's seasons, he does what must be done, sustaining himself with the certainty that to endure injustice with patience is the mark of piety and wisdom.

You're proud of your ability to both believe and question everything. Secretly you think everyone does, but at some point they give in, surrender to the comfort of certainty. It's too much trouble, this endless jousting of belief and doubt, too tiring. Finally you suppose it will break you, yet strangely it's the only thing that keeps you going - though, true, at times you feel unbalanced, even somewhat mad.

It is better to know than to be caught between hope and fear.

How can I explain such a thing? I simply know it in the way I know there's an oak tree inside an acorn...I've come to know it only this night, but it has always been the tree in the acorn.