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Quotes About Uncertainty

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.
~ Paulo Coelho
Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.
~ Quintus Tullius Cicero
What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Not only does God play dice with the world He does not let us see what He has rolled.
~ Stanislaw Lem
We never know what God has up His sleeve. You never know what might happen; you only know what you have to do now.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
Do you want to see God more than you desire security?
~ Francis Chan
When you say, I don't know exactly what God is doing, but I know he's in control that's evidence you're trusting Him.
~ James MacDonald
I'm honest enough to say I don't know everything. You know, I don't. I don't understand all of God. I don't understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.
~ Joel Osteen
I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.
~ Bill Veeck
The anxiety does crawl up. The other night I was having panic attacks: 'Oh, my God, what's going to happen to me? Am I ever going to have another job?
~ Chloe Sevigny
I am an agnostic as to the question of God.
~ Clarence Darrow
Makes you wonder if the gods are always right.
~ Janet Morris
If you want to make god laugh, make a plan.
~ Jay Baruchel
I am satisfied with, and stand firm as a rock on the belief that all that happens in God's world is for the best, but what is merely germ, what blossom and what fruit I do not know.
~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Sometimes I wonder whose side God's on.
~ John Wayne
I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.
~ Mary Gardiner Brainard
I can't tell what god will do because I'm not God. I can only take you back to biblical principle.
~ Paula White
Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.
~ Saint Augustine
Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.
~ Albert Camus
Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.
~ Alice Thomas Ellis
If you want to make God laugh, tell her your plans.
~ Anne Lamott
I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists.
~ Anne Lamott
The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.
~ Anne Lamott