Quotes About Certainty

Faith is a living, unshakable confidence in God's grace; it is so certain that someone would die a thousand times for it.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times

Before you pray, check to see whether you believe or doubt that you will be heard. If you are doubting or uncertain, or if you are merely trying a prayer to see what happens, your prayer won't be worth anything.

God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feeling, but only if it relies on the Word of God.

In all of Holy Writ we find not a single instance of adoration of the patriarchs, the prophets, and apostles - much less of St. George and St. Barbara, who probably never existed, and of the other saints who created by the pope, like St. Francis and St. Dominic, about whom no one knows anything with certainty. But even if we were to concede that they were full of grace, they would still be unable to impart any of it to me.

The Holy Spirit is no sceptic, and the things He has written in our hearts are not doubts or opinions, but assertions - surer and more certain than sense and life itself.

Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it.

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God the Father has made everything to depend on faith, so that whosoever has it has all things, and he who has it not has nothing.

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Men simplify the world with words and thoughts, and that's how they create their certainties; and having certainty is the most potent pleasure in this world, far more potent than money, sex, and power all combined. Renouncing

It's easy to be definite if you haven't faced a situation.

Tell a man there are 300 Billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.

Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong.

If you have to think about whether you love someone or not then the answer is no. When you love someone you just know.

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

Love must not entreat, nor demand. Love must have the power to find its own way to certainty. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. Your love, Sinclair, is attracted by me. When it begins to attract me, I will come. I will not

It's crazy, I'm thinking, just knowing that the world is round, And here I'm dancing on the ground Am I right-side-up or upside-down, And is this real or am I dreaming?

Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer

I love to doubt as well as know.

When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go, what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything

She sure as shootin' hoped that proved to be true.

It wasn't good to dwell on maybes. Maybes could be twisted into things that never really existed

I needed her to know with certainty my feelings for her—before I told her that the man who took her mother worked for us.