Quotes About Certainty

my desire of argument and religious discussion implied a fundamental and utter lack of faith

Actually I feel more sure than I ever have in my life that I am obeying the Lord and am on the way He wills for me, though at the same time I am struck and appalled (more than ever!) by the shoddiness of my response.

No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers. Like

Easy. They just let us forget. Give us too much to process, fill up every minute, keep us distracted, it's what the Tube is for, and though it kills me to say it, it's what rock and roll is becoming - just another way to claim our attention, so that beautiful certainty we had starts to fade, and after a while they have us convinced all over again that we really are going to die. And they've got us again.

Here was world of simplicity and certainty no acidhead, no revolutionary anarchist would ever find, a world based on the one and zero of life and death. Minimal, beautiful. The patterns of life and deaths...

Of course it happened. Of course it didn't happen.

Doubt is the essence of Christ.

Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.… —John Adams1

Some things must be done on faith, but the most dangerous kind of faith is that which masquerades as "science.

It's not the innocence that made him so certain. It's the arrogance of his guilt.

Our brains much prefer it when we're able to predict the future with accuracy, and so we're inclined to create cultural stories and patterns that allow us to do that. Living happily ever after is one such collective pattern that grants us a sense of predictability and certainty in life and holds the standard for societal harmony.

Believing is a lot like trusting.

when in doubt, act like you know what you're doing, and you'll be treated like you do.

Heaven isn't a place, Fanning!...Why does everyone assume it's a destination - some cerebral version of Grand Central Station? It's a state of being! The unshakeable certainty of who you are and where you fit in the world! The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune aside, we suffer most when we try to be someone or something we're not." (page 220)

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

But what are facts, really, except things we've already proven? There could be lots of almost-facts out there, still waiting for proof.

All my instincts tell me no.

Let's get our things afore either one of them changes their mind." Cass

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. - Paulo Coelho When

But is faith really faith until it's tested? It's one thing to claim we have it. It's another to actually put it into practice.

Faith is not faith until it is tested!

Dubito ergo sum - I doubt therefore I am

You say you're sure ? Sure that you're in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?