Quotes about Uncertainty

We live by the assumption that what's good for us is good for the world. And this is based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty what's good for us.

Be brave and take risks… You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.

Sometimes God seemed as close as his wife or children. Sometimes he had no sense of God's presence, no faith to lean on. God is wild, you know, he wrote. We're not in charge.

I threw in the obligatory "if it be Your will" at the end. That tagline may sound spiritual, but it was less a submission to God's will and more a profession of doubt. If you aren't careful, the will of God can become a cop-out if things don't turn out the way you want.

Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!

I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.

When men know they cannot hope in a country, in a political belief, or in themselves, they become free to hope in God.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on.

We see through a glass darkly because all we want is to be comfortable.