Quotes About Certainty

Feelings are broken boards. Only truth is solid, unchanging, and stable through and through.

Here's the bottom line. Good decisions will often have elements of not so good. And not-so-good decisions have elements of good. Either way, if I'm hoping to be able to know the perfect choice and then move forward with certainty, I'll probably not move forward. 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.

God will handle this, and even if you never see how God handles it, you know He will.

We're all desperate to anchor our souls to something we can trust won't change. It

We don't need to understand God to trust Him.

There aren't many sure things in this world. But God's love and goodness are something we can absolutely count on to be there with us . . . to follow us.

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.

Death is the most certain truth in life !

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

Hay en muchos, quizás en todos, la certeza de un eterno existir personal, pero nadie creyó que la figura humana personal misma pudiera ser retenida eterna por el amor. Y sin esta permanencia corporal cada uno solo conocería el eterno existir de sí mismo, existir que ni eterno ni pasajero vale nada, un minuto o mil siglos ningún sentido tienen.

My whole life, I had waited for tragedy to find me. I never doubted that it would... A dozen times grief had scorched, but its fire had never burned through my skin. My madness in those days rose from a new certainty: that at last, I had met the thing the gods could use against me.

Nothing she says has a single meaning, nor a single intention, yet she is steady. She knows herself.

History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And because history never seems like history when you are living through it, it is tempting for us to think the same.

My friend Meyer, the economist, says that cretins are the only humans who can be absolutely certain of their own sanity. All the rest of us go rocketing along rickety rails over spavined bridges and along the edge of bottomless gorges. The man who believes himself free of any taint of madness is a damned liar.

At last there came the reward for patience, her tremendous inhalation broken into six separate fragments, her whole body listening to itself then, finding, being certain, and then taking with hunger. Later she lay curled languid against my chest, her heart and breathing slow. "Wasn't too soon," she said, a blurred drone. "No, it wasn't." "Sweet," she said. "Ver' sweet." And she nestled down into the sleep of total exhaustion.

Any man who outgrows the myths of childhood is ninety-nine percent aware and convinced of his own mortality. But then comes the chilly breath on the nape of the neck, a stirring of the air by the wings of the bleak angel. When a man becomes one hundred percent certain of his inevitable death, he gets The Look.

Jesus, I give my hope to your true and certain return, and the renewal of all things.

Finally, we choose to believe it's happening.

Friend, you must be intentional about holding on to the truth.

stop doubting and believe?" (John 20:27). Thomas had a decision to make in that moment, a decision he was quite capable of making, a decision our Lord was waiting for him to make. Thomas's experience was waiting on a choice.

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

My only certainty in life is that I shall one day die. I can be certain of nothing else in the future. But either we survive (and so far in human history a vast majority has always survived) and having survived when we might not have done so gives us what we call happiness; or we do not survive and do not know it.

How could I be sure that I was not insane? I did not feel mad, but how was I to know what madness felt like?

If I say: "I know that either it is raining or it is not raining," this is a tautology. It is the opposite of a contradiction, in that it is true whatever the circumstances, but it says nothing as it applies to nothing in particular.