Quotes About Certainty

Only one way to be sure.

I consider it extremely unlikely. Which I admit sounds like an agnostic answer rather than a definitive atheist assertion.

And who decides what true is?

Are you sure it is trustworthy, Mellanie?" "I'd be dead if it wasn't." "Yes, I suppose that does generate a respectable level of personal confidence.

I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.

Bertrand Russell wrote that pure mathematics is the field in which we don't know what we're talking about or to what extent what we say is true or false.

No one can be trusted who isn't thrilled with himself at least now and then.

There's always relief in committing to a decision, even when there's no choice.

Truth cannot be verified by the scientific method. How could you prove that Truth is true? Truth cannot be verified by the scientific method...let alone Love, Reason, Spirit, or you.

The new brand of militant atheism...adopts a mocking and high-handed tone of certainty, sneers at its Christian opponents, and states, or implies, that they must be stupid. This style of attack conforms to the irreverent spirit of the age and so is not very carefully examined. It is not widely recognised that secularism is a fundamentally political movement, which seeks to remove the remaining traces of Christian moral law in the civil and criminal codes of the Western nations.

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

then you must inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. And if it is established with certainty that this abomination has been committed among you,

Observe and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will search him out among all the clans of Judah.”

Make a level path for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.

Who has declared this from the beginning, so that we may know, and from times past, so that we may say: ëHe was rightí? No one announced it, no one foretold it, no one heard your words.

This will be a sign to you that I will punish you in this place, declares the LORD, so that you may know that My threats of harm against you will surely stand.

Ephraim will be laid waste on the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel I proclaim what is certain.

so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.

For I have given them the words You gave Me, and they have received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.

being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised.

Now faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see.