Quotes about Certainty

For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae.

You deal with doubt all the time. You have to choose to believe God in every situation. I remind myself all the time, get out of fear. Get out of doubt. Get back in faith.

You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.

Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.

Chesterton is quoted as saying, "When a man stops believing in God, he doesn't then believe in nothing, he believes anything.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own

The orator persuades by moral character when his speech is delivered in such a manner as to render him worthy of confidence; for we feel confidence in a greater degree and more readily in persons of worth in regard to everything in general, but where there is no certainty and there is room for doubt, our confidence is absolute. But this confidence must be due to the speech itself, not to any preconceived idea of the speaker's character;

And if a man believes nothing, but believes it equally so and not so, how would his state be different from a vegetable's?

For the universal will constantly torture him and say, 'You ought to have talked. Where will you find the certainty that it was not after all a hidden pride which governed your resolution?

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

There need to be some absolutes in life.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.