Quotes about Certainty

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.

How Can We Know for Sure That We'll Go to Heaven?

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.

Charles Spurgeon's answer was to recognize that whatever God's Word teaches is true, whether or not it all makes sense to us. He said, I

Faith is like a forward memory, allowing us to believe as if what is promised has already happened.

There is a difference between a belief and a conviction. A belief can become something you merely hold; a conviction is that which holds you.

God has put enough into the world to make faith in Him a most reasonable thing. But He has left enough out to make it impossible to live by sheer reason or observation alone.

We are at a time when postmodernism defies certainty, truth, and meaning; when spiritualism dabbles in quantum theory; and when randomness has become the order of the day. Isn't it ironic that at the same time, the world is on the edge of financial bankruptcy because we have conducted our financial affairs in a random fashion, as if there are no absolutes?

There is a difference between belief and conviction. A belief can become something that you merely hold; a conviction is that which holds you.

Feelings follow belief; belief, then, should follow truth.

Everything He said and did sustains that claim, and contrarily, nothing He said or did challenges that claim.

Isn't it amazing that we can go through life holding passionately to our views, yet never pausing to ask ourselves why that view is inviolable?