Quotes About Certainty

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Death is the surest calculation that can be made.

To Death I yield, but not to Doubt, who slays before!

Most things may never happen: this one will.

mi a helyes, mi az épelméj?, és ki vagyok én, hogy azt állíthassam, valaha is eleget tudtam ahhoz, hogy a helyeset lépjem?

Consensus is not always good; disagreement not always bad. If you do happen to agree, don't take that agreement—in itself—as proof that you are right. Never stop doubting.

Some things just have to be believed to be seen.

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no opportunity for faith either.

Faith, I've concluded, means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

La fe consiste en creer por anticipado algo que solo tendrá sentido cuando se mire hacia el pasado.

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

Can we live now "as if" God is loving, gracious, merciful, and all-powerful, even while the blinders of time are obscuring our vision? The

What is faith, after all, but believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse

La fidelidad implica aprender a confiar que, más allá del perímetro de la oscuridad, Dios aún reina y no nos ha abandonado, no importa lo que parezca.

Even when everything seems out of control, God remains firmly in control.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you," he said.

In order to be prepared to hope in what does not deceive, we must first lose hope in everything that deceives. —Georges Bernanos (in Reason for Being by Jacques Ellul)

As Paul Tournier said, "Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

La presencia visible de Dios no mejoró en nada su fe ni la hizo duradera.

Aun cuando todo parezca fuera de control, Dios sigue dominando con toda firmeza

You have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.

Do you not think that God will protect us?" "No," he said flatly. "My experience is that He rarely attends to the obvious.

She stood silent among the quiet sounds of the night, and certainty came to her.

I assure him swiftly. 'There is