Quotes About Uncertainty

The commands, principles, and case studies of Scripture will take you only so far in your quest to figure out your life. There will be moments when you simply don't understand what is going on. In fact, you will face moments when what the God who has declared himself to be good brings into your life won't seem good. It may even seem bad, very bad.

In moments when you wish you knew what you can't know, there is rest to be found. There is One who knows.

Not knowing is hard. It would be nice to know if that elder is going to succumb to the temptation of being divisive. It would be nice to know if the finances of the church are going to rebound. It would be nice to know how that new preaching series will be received, if those young missionaries will make all the adjustments that they need to make, or if you'll get the permits to build that needed worship space.

Is that a knife in his hand or an ice cream cone? You'll never know until you taste it.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.

To give an estimate is to say something you don't know absolutely to be true, and therefore it is to tell a lie, something geeks find deeply painful.

Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.

The certainty's is gone, as you say. But that's exactly what you just said distinguishes our age from theirs. We can't go back, or pretend we are back. We have to go on from where we are. In doubt.

The certainty's gone, as you say. But that's exactly what you just said distinguishes our age from theirs. We can't go back, or pretend we are back. We have to go on from where we are. In doubt.

One of the motifs of the cat paradox is the clash between what goes on at the microscopic and macroscopic levels. As Schrödinger described in his paper, uncertainty on an atomic scale becomes linked with fuzziness on a human scale. Because such macroscopic murkiness is never observed, microscopic indeterminacy similarly mustn't exist.

Because it is harder to measure smaller things by relating their positions and momenta to those of other known objects, uncertainty is much greater at the atomic level than at the astronomical level. Therefore, quantum uncertainty is not a fundamental feature of nature but the result of human inability to measure everything in the universe with absolute precision. (Eddington)

I don't know exactly what the future holds, but I do know who holds my future! Since the Lord saved me as a teenager it has been an exciting ride! I've never known what was waiting around the next corner.

Be patient with all that is unresolved in your heart, And try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek for the answers that cannot be given, For you would not be able to live them, And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now, And perhaps, without knowing it, You will live along some distant day Into the answers. Rainer Rilke

This land does not go out of its way to provide happy endings

We weren't sure we located the Gabriella until this spring." Barrett tapped a black metal box resting

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

With respect to the question of life after death, I think it is wise for Christians to admit to some tentativeness about it (Eccles. 3: 18–22). The surest thing we can and should say is that we entrust ourselves to God in death as in life (Rom. 14: 7–9).

You gotta admit, it's a messed-up world when going to war is safer than staying home.

He had no idea whether his facts were right, but he suspected that the Doctor was often in the same position.

Life, I would later learn, is a raging river tumbling over jagged rocks, most of which are never seen. There are no signs warning of broken bones or broken promises or broken hearts. Some of us get knocked off our flimsy rafts. Others cling to the straps with utter desperation. Either way, the journey's end is the same. The river surges toward a roaring falls, unforgiving and unsurvivable.

what brings you happiness?" "Mr. Cohen . . ." "Benny." "Benny, I don't really think much about it. I just go about my life day to day. Stuff happens. Some good. Some bad. I don't know what's at the end of the rainbow, or even if there is a rainbow.

thought then, an itchy little one in the back of my brain, as scary as the pop when a ligament tears. Why isn't Victoria Lord my partner . . . in law and in life? -10- True

Si quieres qué Dios se ría, dile tus planes.