Quotes About Certainty

All belief is the least reliable form of knowing...Where there is a natural knowing of God, there is not need for belief. The highest form of certainty is something you know so thoroughly and so naturally that it's impossible to put into words.

Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.

The faith towards God in Christ must be sure and steadfast, that it may solace and make glad the conscience, and put it to rest. When a man has this certainty, he has overcome the serpent; but if he be doubtful of the doctrine, it is for him very dangerous to dispute with the devil.

A man must be able to affirm, I know for certain, that what I teach is the only Word of the high Majesty of God in heaven, his final conclusion and everlasting, unchangeable truth, and whatsoever concurs and agrees not with this doctrine, is altogether false, and spun by the devil.

We must not regard what or how the world esteems us, so we have the Word pure, and are certain of our doctrine.

Rather than take God at his word, they just looked at the difficulties. Rather than doubt their own viewpoint, they doubted God's.

Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before.

In fact, I liked teaching because I liked telling other people what to do. In those days it seemed clearer to me than it does now that if I did something a certain way, it had to be right for other people, too. I was so convinced of it that my students were convinced, too.

But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it.

But one truth must ever grow clearer — the truth that there is an Inscrutable Existence everywhere manifested, to which we can neither find nor conceive either beginning or end. Amid the mysteries which become the more mysterious the more they are thought about, there will remain this one absolute certainty, that we are ever in the presence of an Infinite and Eternal Energy, from which all things proceed.

Truth is the one thing in nature always consistent with itself, and it is the one guide given to us in steering on the ocean of fate.

Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.

His questions will make his faith stronger in the end.

Her people could trust God no matter what. Even

Just think of all the confidence we start out with, all the certainty. And then we embark and we fail, much to our surprise. And then we fail something else, and gradually the surprise dwindles and soon we are surprised by nothing and thus are made adults.

The one thing that was one hundred percent assured was that nothing was one hundred percent assured

SECRET #14 Sometimes you shouldn't be so sure of what you think you're sure of.

Things aren't always as they seem. But then, sometimes they're exactly as they seem.

We think we want comfort in the I-don't-know times of life. But comfort isn't a solution to seek; rather, it's a by-product we'll reap when we stay close to the Lord. What if the comfort and certainties we crave today are a deadly recipe for complacency that will draw our hearts further and further away from God?

When my brain begs me to doubt God, as it most certainly does, I find relief for my unbelief by laying down my human assessments and assumptions; I turn from the Tree of Knowledge and fix my gaze on the Tree of Life.

My imperfections will never override God's promises.

Here's where the certainty is: My imperfections will never override God's promises. God's promises are not dependent on my ability to always choose well, but rather on His ability to use well.

My broken perspective is not proof of His broken promises.

We can't look to our feelings to determine truth. We must look to truth to rein in our feelings.