Quotes About Certainty

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith

Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

Knowing God CAN heal you is not the same as knowing God WILL heal you!

have to be certain of the truth. The whole truth . . . the real truth . . . about eternal life.

Confusion is not a bad thing. It's not doubt that makes a man mad. It's certainty.

Alexander was right, she thought, He has been right about everything. Everything that he told me would happen has come to pass.

Each, however, as he revolves about "his" truth, feels threatened if that truth is questioned. Thus, each considers anything that is not "his" truth a lie.

Não discuto com o destino o que pintar eu assino

Si de algo estaba seguro cuando era joven era de que nunca me aburriría. Ahora me aburro. Y eso es una especie de derrota.

La realidad no está obligada a ser convincente.

En la pausa antes de escuchar tu voz tuve la certeza que te quería como te sigo queriendo y te voy a querer siempre, pase lo que pase

How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it?

Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.

Sometimes this epiphany brings a great relieving certainty that fragile self-esteem, frequent flashbacks, and recurring reenactments of unsupportive relationships were caused by the closed hearts of your parents.

There is no such thing as a fixed and reliable truth (except for the statement that this is so, presumably

Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.

We believe in what we cannot know or understand. We do not believe in what we know.

Sweating bullets to line up the Bible with our exhausting expectations, to make the Bible something it's not meant to be, isn't a pious act of faith, even if it looks that way on the surface. It's actually thinly masked fear of losing control and certainty, a mirror of an inner disquiet, a warning signal that deep down we do not really trust God at all.

When we reach the point where things simply make no sense, when our thinking about God and life no longer line up, when any sense of certainty is gone, and when we can find no reason to trust God but we still do, well that is what trust looks like at its brightest – when all else is dark.

When knowing what you believe is the nonnegotiable center of true faith, questions and critical self-examination pose a threat.

Doubt is what being cornered by our thinking looks like. Doubt happens when needing to be certain has run its course.