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Quotes About Uncertainty

Faith doesn't reduce uncertainty. Faith embraces uncertainty.
~ Mark Batterson
Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.
~ Brad Warner
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.
~ William James
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.
~ George Orwell
Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
~ Barry Commoner
Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.
~ Nathalie Sarraute
Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Faith lives in honest doubt.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
True faith goes into operation when there are no answers.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.
~ Gayle Forman
In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.
~ Paul Tillich
if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.
~ Frederick Buechner
There can be no faith without risk.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
~ Bram Stoker
I have a confession: I have no faith.
~ Zach Anner
The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.
~ Unknown
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
~ Unknown
Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be a very dull existence.
~ Kristen Britain
There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.
~ Ann Brashares
Faith is a vulnerable thing, not a battle.
~ Unknown
Faith is like stepping off a cliff and expecting one of two outcomes- you will either land on solid ground or you will be taught to fly.
~ Hillary Clinton
These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in.
~ Benjamin Carson
Behind each piece, animating every attempt, is the echo of a precarious faith, that we are more intimately bound to one another by our kindred doubts than our brave conclusions.
~ Charles D'Ambrosio