Quotes About Certainty

There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.

Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.

FAITH receives more than it asks. DOUBT loses more than it disbelieved.

Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.

Faith is believing that Christ is what he is said to be, and that he will do what he has promised to do, and then to expect this of him.

Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

It's called faith because it's not knowledge.

I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.

Lately I've been running on faith.

Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.

I think most religious people experience just as much doubt as they do faith; they just don't admit it. (13)

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

Faith is believing things you know aint true

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.

Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

Faith is the profound knowing that comes before reality confirms it.

Faith is not jumping to conclusions. It is concluding to jump.

Faith lives in honest doubt.