Quotes About Certainty

the fact that a real apocalypse would be such a vindication, if you'd spent all this dough getting ready for it,

Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

Death is the surest calculation that can be made.

P]rayer is the … certainty that the power of the heart is greater than the power of Nature, … Prayer is the absolute relation of the human heart to itself, to its own nature; in prayer, man forgets that there exists a limit to his wishes, and is happy in this forgetfulness.

God as an object of thought … is always a remote being; the relation … is an abstract one, … So long as we have not met a being face to face, we are always in doubt whether he is really such as we imagine him; … Christ … is the … certainty that God is what the soul desires and needs him to be. … [O]nly in Christ is the last wish of religion realised, … [W]hat god is in essence, … Christ is in actual appearance.

Es muss sein [It must be]!

Must it be? It must be.

Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.

In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

Life is what happened when all the 'what-ifs' didn't . . . .

If you say that you believe something to be true, you might mean one of two things- that you're still weighing the alternatives, or that you accept it as a fact.

Concrete answers came easily; nonchalance didn't.

Because you can always count on a book to stay the same . Everything changes when you least expect it, she replies, bitter. Families split apart, and nothing's forever. In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

How many exceptions do there have to be before you start to realize that maybe the truths you've been told aren't actually true?

Could something that looked so wrong on the outside turn out to be undeniably right? My

Could something that looked so wrong on the outside turn out to be undeniably right?

For years, Thisbe will later think of that one moment in the field as the only time she was ever sure about anything in her life.

Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!

It is possible to be saved without assurance, but it is scarcely possible to be a healthy Christian without assurance.

ineluctable laws of which were everywhere at work. This gnosis

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later [1978]

So I run straight to the goal with purpose in every step" (verse 26 NLT). That is exactly what every human being should do—run with certainty and purpose to win. We are not competing against others, only ourselves.

When we think we are absolutely right, we stop seeking new information. To be right is to be certain, and to be certain stops us from being curious.

Defeasible beliefs provide the provisional certainty necessary to navigate an uncertain world.