Quotes About Certainty

Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

If he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.

Well, I think the questioner wants the truth. The doubter wants to be told there aint no such thing.

He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

Then he just sat there holding the binoculars and watching the ashen daylight congeal over the land. He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

She'd been so certain she knew every crevice of his heart, but Jacob was like a country she'd only traveled through halfway.

When we live by faith, we believe that God has everything under control. But if we start to worry, how we live says the opposite.

And that's my comfort--that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was real and not merely a dream?

Perhaps only this: that the greatest danger in life is certainty. Yes, I do believe that. Our last redoubt in the world is wonder. Wonder and unknowing. Now and then a random detail will stir me to faint recognitions: a row of dead beetles in the grass; the chapped knees of some dowager on the S-bahn. Tantalizing signs reminding me that infinity billows out from every moment. That's when I lean in, sniff the air, cock my ears like a foxhound- and listen.

I have been granted the terrible privilege of deciding what would have happened with no one left to contradict me. And maybe I am absolutely wrong.

From then on, as long as I was at Ault, I would never be alone. Martha and I would get along, our friendship would last. I felt certainty and relief. Years later, I heard a minister at a wedding describe marriage as cutting sorrow in half and doubling joy, and what I thought of was not the guy I was seeing then, nor even of some perfect, imaginary husband I might meet later; I thought immediately of Martha.

We both were smiling, and I loved him, I loved him completely, and I knew that he loved me back. I could feel it. That moment- inside it, I could anticipate the thing I most wanted and I could be beyond it, it had happened already, and I was ensconced in the rich reassurance of knowing it was certain and definite.

she was walking along the bottom-most bed--she was quite safe: quite safe, if she had to go on and on for ever, seeing this was the very bottom, and there was nothing deeper. There was nothing deeper, you see, so one could not but feel certain, passive.

For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

Whenever you look back and say if you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as if. The only thing that matters is what really happened.

Never be bothered by what people say, as long as you know in your heart you are right.

I knew, of course, that I had nothing to worry about—personally, at least. But

If you can be sure of being right only 55 percent of the time, you can go down to Wall Street and make a million dollars a day. If you can't be sure of being right even 55 percent of the time, why should you tell other people they are wrong?

Reader, be assured this narrative is no fiction.

Without faith, people perish, and they are perishing before our eyes

Tell me something. Why did I have to know the truth about Margot and know it with absolute certainty? Or rather why, knowing the truth, did I have to know more, prove more, see ? Does one need to know more, ever more and more, in order that one put off acting on it or maybe even not act at all?

Just because Jimmy Swaggart believes in God doesn't mean that God does not exist.

you must eliminate from your thoughts all doubt and uncertainty that you will get well; that you will succeed; that you will gain your point and get what you want. You may have some uncertainty as to methods, but you must have none as to ultimate results. You may not feel certain that you will succeed today, or next week, but you must feel certain that you will succeed sometime.

Faith doesn't give warranties.