Quotes About Uncertainty

It was hard to say if the statement was some sort of suicidal ideation, but one could hope.

Which one is grammatically correct? I never know.

In a lovely paper called "Suspense in the Absence of Uncertainty," Richard Gerrig points out that suspense can be created even if one knows the outcome—the election of George Washington as president, say, or the successful creation of the atomic bomb by the United States in World War II—so long as there is uncertainty about how the obstacles are dealt with. It is this surmounting of obstacles that can pull us in; they're what give the opportunity of pleasure.

He seemed to get the most out of doctors who didn't feel as he did. Who were calm when he was anxious. Confident when he was uncertain." "His calmness didn't make me feel abandoned, it made me feel secure. I wanted to look at him and see the opposite of my fear, not it's echo." "I would prefer that those who care about me greet my panic with calm, and my gloom with good cheer.

Just like mountain climbing and going to war, then, raising children is an activity that has an uncertain connection to pleasure but has the potential to enhance meaning and

But what about the more emotional side of empathy? Here it's more complicated. He seemed to get the most from doctors who didn't feel as he did, who were calm when he was anxious, confident when he was uncertain. And he was particularly appreciative of certain virtues that have little directly to do with empathy, such as competence, honesty, professionalism, and certainly respect.

We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fall off at the next bump.

He had to pause for his usual misgivings.

I looked out my window. We were cruising above a plateau of shaving cream clouds. That bothered me; I didn't like not being able to see the ground. A missile could be racing up at us right now. I looked over at my two friends. They were talking excitedly about something, and that made me feel better. Friends are the key, I think. If you have good friends, you can get through anything, even Vietnam.

It'll take weeks of grunt work and potentially lead nowhere," said Quill. "Excellent: that sounds like police work to me.

Because when you stopped being a teenager, you started feeling less sure of yourself, and not everything seemed like it was life and death.

That would be an actual miracle," said Lizzie. "I never was sure what I thought about those.

You know I used to think the future was solid or fixed, something you inherited like an old building that you move into when the previous generation moves out or gets chased out. But it's not. The future is not fixed, it's fluid.

The Bible tells you that real peace is found in resting in the wisdom of the One who holds all of your "what-ifs" and "if-onlys" in his loving hands.

He knows that his plan will confuse and confound you. And he knows that real rest cannot be found in understanding. Real rest is found in trust.

You and I simply never know for sure what is coming next. Think about it: your life has not worked according to your plan. You could not have written yourself into your present situation twenty years ago. Last week didn't work according to your plan. Today won't work according to your plan. Your life is under the wise and sovereign plan of another (see Acts 17:26–27; Dan. 4:34b–35).

When the thing you have been trusting (whether you knew it or not) is laid to waste, you don't suffer just the loss of that thing; you also suffer the loss of the identity and security that it provided.

When you don't understand what's going on, run to God's goodness rather than questioning whether it exists.

even though there is very little that we know for sure about our lives and we experience constant surprises along the way, we need not give way to panic.

I may not understand what is happening and I may not know what is coming around the corner, but I know that God does and that he controls it all. So even when I am confused, I can have hope, because my hope does not rest on my understanding, but on God's goodness and his rule.

As much as we try to make sense of our lives, there are things that we simply aren't able to understand.

There will be moments when you simply don't understand what is going on.

if your faith is based on your ability to fully understand your past, present, and future, then your moments of confusion will become moments of weakening faith.

Our motivation to stand firm in faith, even when we are going through things that we don't understand, is found in one thing: God's declaration of his intention toward us.