Quotes About Uncertainty

When you're feeling small and scared—which, let's be honest, is pretty much how I feel all the time—isn't it okay, just for a moment, to want someone, something bigger than you to have all the answers, to have everything under control?

And yes, I know I saw something. We both did. But knowing you saw something is different from knowing what you saw.

Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.

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Blinders als blind ist die Aengstlicher

She was seriously disappointed, a child I was treating like a woman, or a woman I was treating like a child, I didn't know myself which it was.

Wie die Winde sind die Möglichkeiten unseres Lebens, und warum wagt man nie, die Segel auszuspannen?

The fact is, nobody has the faintest idea of what is going to happen next year, next week, or even tomorrow. If you hope to get anywhere as a speculator, you must get out of the habit of listening to forecasts. It is of the utmost importance that you never take economists, market advisers, or other financial oracles seriously.

Of course, [risk] is a two-way street. But look at it this way. As an ordinary tax-hounded, inflation-raddled income earner, carrying much of the rest of the world on your back, you are in pretty sorry financial state anyhow.

Why do we go on listening to economic prophets when they plainly know no more about the future than you or I?

Economists, market advisers, political oracles, and clairvoyants all know this basic rule by heart: if you can't forecast right, forecast often.

Nostradamus wasn't often right, but he sure was often.

Americans live in a twilight world between a sense of loss and a sense of resigned acceptance.

He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.

You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear

At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear.

God is not going to let you see the distant scene either. So you might as well quit looking for it. He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future (Psalm 119:105). We do not need to know what will happen tomorrow. We only need to know he leads us and "we will find grace to help us when we need it" (Hebrews 4:16 NLT).

This season in which you find yourself may puzzle you, but it does not bewilder God. He can and will use it for his purpose.

You wanted to know how you'll make it on your own?" Manny asked as the sights and sounds of the lush Jerusalem garden gave way to the sterile hospital chapel. "You'll never know. Because you never will be.

Contingent faith is the faith of sidewalk chalk: it's beautiful when the sun shines, but washes away when the rain falls.

We fear saying the wrong thing or using the wrong tone or acting the wrong way. So rather than do it incorrectly, we do nothing at all.

Only God knows what's around the corner. Maybe we should let him do the driving.

And it is when we are out of options that we are most ready for God's surprises.

Queremos seguridad, pero lo único seguro es la falta de ella.