Quotes about Certainty
Believing that there is no God does not mean that there isn't one.
— Ray Comfort
We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into the open air, look up into the depths of the sky, or out upon the wideness of the sea, or on the strength of the hills that is His also; or, if bound in the body, go forth in the spirit; spirit is not bound. Give Him time and, as surely as dawn follows night, there will break upon the heart a sense of certainty that cannot be shaken. —Amy Carmichael
— Joni Eareckson Tada
There is thus no objection to the use of the term 'faith' for that function of the soul by which it attains certainty immediately or directly, without the aid of discursive demonstration. This places faith over against demonstration, but not over against knowing.
— Abraham Kuyper
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
— Henry David Thoreau
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Love has a particular trait: it has a task or purpose to fulfill - to abide. By its nature, love is enduring. The Holy Spirit offers our world love that dispels uncertainty; love that overcomes the fear of betrayal; love that carries eternity within; the true love that draws us into a unity that abides!
— Pope Benedict XVI
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end, it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
How Can We Know for Sure That We'll Go to Heaven?
— Randy Alcorn
If a thousand things that made sense to me had turned out wrong, perhaps this thing that didn't make sense would turn out right.
— Randy Alcorn