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Quotes About Certainty

In what concerns divine things, belief is not appropriate. Only certainty will do. Anything less than certainty is unworthy of God.
~ Simone Weil
Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God, despite his casual silence, still exists. Of that I haven't a single doubt.
~ Donald E. Williams, Jr.
Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.
~ Edward Abbey
My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.
~ Eugenie de Guerin
There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject
~ George Bernard Shaw
I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as God.
~ Hendrik Hertzberg
It's not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie.
~ James MacDonald
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discloses to me His existence. [Fr., L'impossibilite ou je suis de prouver que Dieu n'est pas, me decouvre son existence.]
~ Jean de la Bruyere
There is no direct evidence, so how could you ask me to believe in God.
~ Jodie Foster
Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right.
~ John Adams
The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.
~ John Steinbeck
I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.
~ John Steinbeck
I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.
~ Karen White
All of God's creatures have names, every last one of them. Of that I am sure: of that I have no doubt at all.
~ Kate DiCamillo
For Man nothing is beyond doubt; for God everything is beyond doubt.
~ Kedar Joshi
God has put enough into the world to make faith in Him a most reasonable thing. But He has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason or observation alone.
~ Ravi Zacharias
I don't have to touch God to know that he's real.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
And if there is no god?You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.
~ Janet Fitch, White Oleander
Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis.
~ Pierre-Simon Laplace
No one knows the Truth, but those who have the Truth
~ Samone Sherrell
Do I believe in God? Sure. So I believe the Bible is the arbiter of theological knowledge? There it gets a little hazy.
~ Don Hoesel, Elisha's Bones
Faith in God is a possibility.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I trust God that through all life changes, He is in control.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita