Quotes About Certainty

Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible.

Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You.

Live by faith, not by sight.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.

That's the thing about faith. It works.

...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.

She doesn't believe in dogs," Bridget said. "Dogs are hardly an article of faith," Sylvie said.

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

To have faith is to believe unconditionally.

Feed your faith, starve your doubts.

These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in.

Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.

If you live in a world of faith, this reaffirms your faith.

In each big decision, we'll always make them by faith.

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.

The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.

No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

Not hope, but Faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar.

If you don't have faith, you have nothing.