Quotes about Certainty

Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself. MADELEINE L'ENGLE

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.

The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.

No One Is a Relativist at the Bank

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

Worry is a mild form of atheism.

Everything we need to be satisfied in God, the cross has made certain. It cannot fail.

Epistemology models ontology.

For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill coupled together as the Doctrine of Christianity and that of Transubstantiation, because they draw several ways, and are ready to strangle one another: For the main Evidence of the Christian Doctrine, which is Miracles, is resolved into the certainty of Sense, but this Evidence is clear and point blank against Transubstantiation.

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me." - John Wesley

Although every man necessarily believes that every particular opinion which he holds is true (for to believe any opinion is not true, is the same thing as not to hold it); yet can no man be assured that all his own opinions, taken together, are true. Nay, every thinking man is assured they are not, to be ignorant of many things, and to mistake in some, is the necessary condition of humanity.