Quotes About Assurance

But I bet more than half the people in the world right now are worrying about something that really is going to be okay.

Without hesitation. Without creating a gap that doubt can wedge its way into, to create an even greater hesitation.

Biblical faith is not some feeling that stands alone; rather, it is the deeply felt and held assurance of God's faithfulness and power. It is confidence in the willingness and the ability of Jesus to bring us into a relationship with God and to empower us to live the Christian life.

They don't know I'm beloved. But I know and that's plenty.

Wait, go back to that Southern Baptist part," Julia said, interrupting, as she does. "Are you a born-again?" articulating her question as if she were asking me if I were really a headhunter or a Martian. "Yes," I said, "but I'm not an asshole. At least not theologically speaking.

Believe me for meat and for myself.

faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.

Practice trust in small matters for huge returns in the large ones.

Ya no mujer joven sino mujer rotunda. Mis deseos ya no intuiciones sino certezas.

The only way to be sure of never losing the ones you love. The Dahmer Method. Extreme, but effective.

There's a difference between suspecting a thing and finally knowing it for certain.

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship will continue, notwithstanding the certainty of death and the passage of time. Men may write love songs and sing them. They may yearn and hope and dream. But all of this will be only a romantic longing unless there is an exercise of authority that transcends the powers of time and death.

We are made little wiser, tho much more vain and conceited in the Universitys... The University is the most fertile Nursery of Prejudices, whereof the greatest is, that we think there to learn every thing, when in reality we are taught nothing; only talk by Rote with mighty assurance the precarious Notions of our Systems, which if deny'd by another, we have not a word further to say out of our common Road, nor any Arguments left, to satisfy the Opposer or our selves."

If you have a college degree you can be absolutely sure of one thing — you have a college degree.

If it want for faith, thare would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with enny safety, if it want for faith.

Pride is intellectual self-judgment. It's a mixture of hope and fantasy, and should be put aside. 'Assurance', which is a measure of competence, is a more useful standard.

Although there are many things you can rely on, no one is more reliable than yourself.

I find it odd that you would voice such an unnecessary question," Gideon remarked serenely, sipping his beverage and rolling the bouquet of it over his tongue for a moment. at times I find comfort in voicing a concern just to hear the verbal assurance.

Nobody questions anything if you have confidence, intelligence, and you are proud of your product.

they reassured everyone that nothing terrible was happening

The God who makes the promise keeps the promise.

Looking back, I know that the man possessed no gift of prophecy; he simply worked to assure his own future, while I skated uncertainly toward mine. It was his flat-voiced Cherchez la femme that still haunts me. Because our partnership was nothing but a bungling road to the Dahlia. And in the end, she was to own the two of us completely.

Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.