Quotes About Assurance

I, who was never even sure what the time was, nodded with the conviction of the ignorant.

I don't like going into this with a half-baked plan." "It's not half-baked," I said. "It's mostly baked. Just a little soft in the middle." Actually, that was bravado.

The secret of her calm seemed to be that she was not trying to prove anything. She was—that was all. And her stance toward life seemed to say: God is—and that is enough.

I believe you, Tamara, I just don't believe it.

And you are mine, and you will be mine. They will not get you. - Eric from Dead and Gone

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

I'm from the Midwest, so I always assumed, 'Well, I have to think badly of myself, because that's being humble.'

I never felt that AC Milan had full confidence in me.

But the word faith is better translated as "confidence" and "trust," because it is about something inside you and not directed toward something external.

I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.

Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this.

By faith we know God without seeing Him. By hope we possess God without feeling His presence.

It's not the innocence that made him so certain. It's the arrogance of his guilt.

Believing is a lot like trusting.

If we are not afraid, if we keep our balance, if we let our anxious selves dissolve into the beauties and mysteries of the night, we will find a way to peace and assurance. Signal fires burn all over the land.

Independance grows out of a child's faith that her source of security will always be there when she needs it.

when in doubt, act like you know what you're doing, and you'll be treated like you do.

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

One of the essential problems for education is that most countries subject their schools to the fast-food model of quality assurance when they should be adopting the Michelin model instead. The future for education is not in standardizing but in customizing; not in promoting groupthink and "deindividuation" but in cultivating the real depth and dynamism of human abilities of every sort.

Years ago on the flyleaf of my Bible I wrote in red ink, "The Bible says it, I believe it, and that settles it.

14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

Hope says, "I'll get healed sometime." Heart faith says, "It's mine now.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Heb. 11:1).

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.