Quotes About Certainty

Either, you are in love with someone or you're not. Fear is complicated, not love.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained.

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.

The facts may tell you one thing. But, God is not limited by the facts. Choose faith in spite of the facts.

There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.

What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

People who demand signs never believe them when they come.

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve grasped the truth.

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.