Quotes About Uncertainty

We need to step into certain uncertainty. Without faith it is impossible to please God.

I had hoped God would be neutral.

I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.

The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of not falling.

There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.

Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.

God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.

Is there a God? There is, but we don't know where. Or who. And, indeed, why.

Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.

When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not agnostic. I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me.

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]

You know why the road curves as you're driving along? It curves because if God showed us the distance from where we are to where we're going, we'd think it was too far.

God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight.

What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God who would eat you without compunction if I were hungry.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

I'd rather have all my questions unanswered and walk with God than not walk with God and have all my questions answered.

You can never ask God to tell you what the end is. You can ask, "Is this a good thing to do?" But not, "How is this going to turn out?" That answer you will never get.

God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.

How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.

Am I really a person who lives by faith? God can surely tell the difference between someone who walks in darkness and someone who walks with her eyes shut. Which am I?