Quotes About Uncertainty

I think you're right, Wyatt. I can't see a God damn thing.

Do I believe? God only knows.

It's funny how aimless a person can feel at times, even when they know God is in control.

Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.

God willing and the creek don't rise

Seems as unfounded ... to say there isn't a God as to say there is.

God doesn't always give us a blueprint for our lives, but he always gives us a next step.

When he turned on the tape-transport once more, Arctor was saying, "-- as near as I can figure out, God is dead." Luckman answered, "I didn't know He was sick.

One thing about God's will, you can never see God's will before it happens. You can only see at the end of it.

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

By night an atheist half-believes in God.

we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.

I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans.

I can't see what God's plan is. I just know I've got to live with it.

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

Either there is a God or there isn't. Both possibilities are frightening.

I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'.

Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.

Just because I don't understand god's plans does not mean that he is not with me.

That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.

None of us are going to have perfect lives. Our own vision of what we think is good maybe different from what He [God] thinks. And we forget that. We think we know what's best and we don't.

I honestly don't know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.