Quotes About Certainty

I can't prove to you that there is a God, I just know. All this suffering has to have a reason.

The same unquestioning certainty given to English rain and Irish trouble.

yo tenía la certeza absoluta de que ese momento de la llegada empataría con el de la partida sin ninguna fisura, en dócil solución de continuidad.

Ella siempre dijo que él iba a volver, sabiendo que no era verdad. Yo lo repetía, pero a diferencia de ella, yo estaba segura de que iba a ser verdad.»

I turn to look over my shoulder - in a minute, I will lay down my pen - and think, write that there is only one thing I know for certain, and it has everything to do with "happy". Indeed, it is the last thing I will say on the subject: There is not a story, in the entire history of the world, that cannot be improved upon by the inclusion of a character named Kit.

You don;t believe me?" He sound wounded, like the thought of me not believing him makes him incredibly sad. "No." "Then come with me," he says. He unfolds his long legs and stands up. "To Cooley's. You'll see they just posted the schedule. If I'm lying, I'll buy you a chocolate shake." "And If you're not?" "Then I'll still buy you a chocolate shake." He grins at me.

Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone.

It wouldn't be easy with this man. He had trouble written all over him. But there was something else too... There was something in his eyes that gave her an absolute surety that he'd be worth the struggle. She expected scientific proof of many things. But sometimes fate was just fate. And he was hers.

Some days, I believe the Christian story even more than I believe in Australia. After all, I have never been to Australia, it is just a picture on a map. I don't know if I will ever go there, but I know that eventually I am going to Glory. Living the Christian life, however, is not about that Australia kind of believing. It is about a promise to believe even when you don't.

finally I say            all right, it is improbable, all right, there is no God. And then as if I'm focusing a magnifying glass on dry leaves, God blazes up. It's the attention, maybe, to what isn't            there that makes the notion flare like a forest fire until I have to spend the afternoon dragging the hose to put it out. . . .

Can you just trust in our love, without asking me to prove it every single second?

I'm always right. Except when I'm not.

We think we believe what we know, but we only truly believe what we feel.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

They can have their little ceremony. We know the truth.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Opinion is worth nothing. Where is your evidence?" (Atalanta Worthington)

The lady denied it. That is that.

Years might pass and they might change, both of them, but she was sure she would still know her own child, just as she would know herself, no matter how long it had been. She was certain of this. She would spend months, years, the rest of her life looking for her daughter, searching the face of every young woman she meet for as long as it took, searching for a spark of familiarity in the faces of strangers.

That child who she thought had been her opposite but who had, deep inside, inherited and carried and nursed that spark her mother had long ago tamped down, that same burning certainty that she knew right from wrong.

She knew that he was telling the truth, that this had been the truth for a long, long time.

But at that moment she had known, with a certainty she would never feel about anything else in her life, that it was right, that she wanted this man in her life. Something inside her said, He understands. What it's like to be different.

Even the younger Richardsons had it, this sureness in themselves.

That evening, that sureness, feels ancient now, like something grown small with the distance of years.