Quotes About Certainty

This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if I'd only ever experienced love and certainty in my life. How can I describe the warmth of affection in that voice, as it gave me the answer that would forever seal my faith in the divine?

If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith.

But we are not what the other one needs, still he is certain that I will find great love in my life someday. He is sure of it. After all, he says, beauty attracts beauty.

Dessutom kunde jag inte glömma vad min syster en gång hade sagt till mig medan hon ammade: ''Att skaffa barn är som att skaffa sig en tatuering i ansiktet. Man måste vara bergsäker på att det är så man vill ha det innan man sätter igång.

If faith were rational, it wouldn't be—by definition—faith. Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch.

Lapse saamine on umbes nagu oma näo tätoveerimine. Sa pead ikka raudselt kindel olema, et see on just see, mida sa tahad.

But there is one critical gift that a traditional Hmong bride almost always receives on her wedding day which all too often eludes the modern Western bride, and that is the gift of certainty. When you have only one path set before you, you can generally feel confident that it was the correct path to have taken. And a bride whose expectations for happiness are kept necessarily low to begin with is more protected, perhaps, from the risk of devastating disappointments down the road.

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.

I kept waiting to want to have a baby, but it didn't happen. And I know what it feels like to want something, believe me. I well know what desire feels like. But it wasn't there. Moreover, I couldn't stop thinking about what my sister had said to me once, as she was breast-feeding her firstborn: "Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.

insisted, "until the point is inarguable.

why are you so sure that your micromanagement of every moment in this whole world is so essential

Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit

Sometimes, however, there is more than hope. Sometimes there is reason.

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

Der Glaube ist das, was fuer uns real ist.

Of death I am as certain as any mortal, Ammerlin, but defeat is certain only in despair.

The less a person knows, the more certain he is that he is right, and ... no weapons yet invented are of any use in a struggle with stupidity.

always so firmly supposed she did; and it was why

In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.

Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.

Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain. If God were God, if He were omnipotent, if He had cared, would this have happened? Is this that I face now the ratification of my calling, the reward of obedience?

Where there is no certainty the mind must turn to the light and not the shadow.

There is no profit in ifs. We go on from where we stand, we answer for our own evil, and leave to God our good.

The ugliness that man can do to man might cast a shadow between you and the certainty of the justice and mercy God can do to him hereafter. It takes half a lifetime to reach the spot where eternity is always visible, and the crude injustice of the hour shrivels out of sight.