Quotes About Certainty

God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feelings, but only if it relies on the Word of God.

Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof.

Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

If God wants something done, can it be done? I am personally convinced that no goal God has for my life is impossible, uncertain, nor can it be blocked.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right?

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.

Is he dead?" he inquired. "He looks dead." "No," snapped Maryse. "He's not dead." "Have you checked? I could kick him if you want.

We believe whatever we want to believe.

This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

Evil is at its boldest when it walks an unerring path.

There's no certainty in this, Baruk. That seems a fact particularly galling to you humans.

TA truly successful leader is a reluctant leader. Not one whose every word is greeted with frenzied cheering either - after all what happens to the mind of such a leader, after such scenes are repeated again and again? A growing certainty, a belief in one's own infallibility, and onward goes the march into disaster. No, Bugg I won't have anyone kissing my feet ????, ' I'm relieved to hear that master, since those feet have not known soap in a long time'.

When the time for action comes, all doubts must be discarded.

To draw a weapon is to announce an end to uncertainty.

Certainty was an illusion, a lie. Fanaticism was poison in the soul, and the first victim in its inexorable, ever-growing list was compassion. Who could speak of freedom, when one's own soul was bound in chains?

You still think like a child, don't you? Clay figurines sunk to their ankles in the sand, one here, one there, standing just so. One says this, the other says that, then you reach down and rearrange them accordingly. Scenes, vistas, stark with certainty.

And there was another truth, one that seemed on the surface to contradict the first one. The gentler and kinder the god, the more harsh and cruel its worshippers, for they hold to their conviction with taut certainty, febrile in its extremity, and so cannot abide dissenters. They will kill, they will torture, in that god's name. And see in themselves no conflict, no matter how bloodstained their hands.