Quotes About Certainty

If our faith were but as firm as our state in Christ is secure and glorious, what manner of men should we be ?

There is no danger. It is not getting dark , we want to say.

No need to worry. Everything's under control." "It is?" "Not my control, but somebody's.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

He that is not open to conviction, is not qualified for discussion.

As a queen sits down, knowing that a chair will be there, Or a general raises his hand and is given the field-glasses, Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.

Credo quia impossibile

?i ce te faci dac? totu?i exista Dumnezeu: spune-mi, ce te faci dac? totu?i este adev?rat ca El exista? (Levi Yitzhak)

Abbot Miron had sat sewing a patch on his trousers as we talked. He raised his intense luminous eyes to Gaston and said, "Years ago I had a postcard from my brother in New York, who had been to the top of the Empire State Building. He didn't investigate the foundations first, Pastor Gaston. The fact that it had been there forty years is proof that the foundations are good. The same with the Church, which has rested two thousand years on the truth.

When an engineer has built a bridge, the fact that a cat can pass over the bridge is no proof that the bridge is good. A train must pass over it to prove its strength. The fact that you can be an atheist when everything goes well does not prove the truth of atheism. It does not hold up in moments of great crisis." I

almost time to go home—and he had come to rely on the desolate wastes of time that lay between these pleasures as an invalid comes to rely on the certainty of recurring pain. It was a part of him.

I seem to have to lost confidence in just about everything else. I've come to believe that only a very, very few matters in the world can ever be trusted to make sense.

Maybe under all that guilt and certainty that he couldn't love again, he still wanted me. I would have liked to have found out. But I didn't have the time. Instead, I punched him.

Those who have to ask if faith is true are opening up a discussion they may not be ready for.

All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind what can you trust?

But saying one thing before it happens and then actually having that thing happen are two different things.

I meant what I said before, you know. I trust you. Whatever reason you're doing this, I know it's a good one. But before things start moving, are you sure this is what you want?

Sometimes," I told her, "I still don't. It goes against every rule of the universe." To my surprise, she touched the small gold cross around her neck. "Some rules are bigger than the universe.

Wrong? I don't know, Sage. Honestly, that was the most right thing that's happened to me in a while.

Sometimes, I still don't believe. It goes against every rule of the universe." "Some rules are bigger than the universe.

Stop trying, & start trusting.

to it. "Okay," he said. "Now I believe.

Just because we happen not to have actually seen something with our own two little winkles, we think it is not existing.

Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.