Quotes about Certainty

Brexit and Trump are a generational revenge. This may partly be against millennial certainty and superiority, and, indeed, ageism; and it may be a natural part of population dynamics - not only are more people getting far older than ever before, but they are older for longer than they are young.

The literal resurrection of every soul who has lived and died on earth is a certainty, and surely one should make careful preparation for this event. A glorious resurrection should be the goal of every man and woman, for resurrection will be a reality.

God has not the slightest need for our proofs.

Faith is rather a freedom, a permission. It is permitted to be so—that the believer in God's Word may hold on to this Word in everything, in spite of all that contradicts it.

So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us.

Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.

Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.