Quotes About Certainty

Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.

What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn't 'democratic'—it's something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.

Nature itself cannot err

Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.

This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

Once you start questioning your beliefs, that's when it's all over. It is truly doubt that kills our conviction.

If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable

It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.

The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief.

I have no patience for anybody who doubts me, none at all.

Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals and patriotism.

There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.

First doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith. We must never allow doubt to hold us prisoner and keep us from the divine love, peace, and gifts that come through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.

We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.

I don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not.

Do not bank on mere mortals. Trust the One who will never fail you

He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter.