Quotes about Certitude
In fact, like most things in life that really matter—love, beauty, justice—you can't prove things in history the way you can prove Pythagoras's theorem. But there are lots of things you can be certain of nonetheless.
— NT Wright
I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.
— Tertullian
It is certain because it is impossible
— Tertullian
I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it comes to pass, you will believe that I am He.
— John 13:19
But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
— James 1:6
It is important to know that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but in fact, certitude and the demand for certitude!
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We've turned faith into a right to certitude when, in fact, this Trinitarian mystery is whispering quite the opposite: we have to live in exquisite, terrible humility before reality.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
I worry about "true believers" who cannot carry any doubt or anxiety at all, as Thomas the Apostle and Mother Teresa learned to do. People who are so certain always seem like Hamlet's
— Fr. Richard Rohr
There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.
— Paul Tillich
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found? I
— William James
I had escaped the snare of certitude that I welcomed so avidly at first and entered, via the name of Jesus, the wide and comprehensive company of Jesus.
— Eugene Peterson
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
— Joseph Campbell