Quotes About Certainty

Faith doesn't begin until reason stops.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.

Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.

I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.

There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

Faith is believing what we cannot prove.

It is not about never doubting, it is about coming out on the other side with twice the faith you had going into your doubt.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

Faith is a wonderful thing, but doubt gets you an education.

Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand.

Faith in faith is faith astray.

if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.

The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?

Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.

I have more faith in my bra than I have in my accountant.

The one who has real Faith doesn't need to believe.

Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.

Faith is intellectual laziness.

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

The more you delve into science, the more it appears to rely on faith.

I had faith, and if I had faith I couldn't worry.

Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be a very dull existence.

Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse.