Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That’s all you need to know in this life…just the certainty that God’s got His eye on you, that He knows what you are made of, what you need to grow on. Why,questioning’s a sin, it’s pointless. He will show you your path in His own good time. And long as I remember that, I’m fine.
Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.
It is wise to be sure, but otherwise to be too sure.
It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures which they cling to. . . You feel sad about all that self-indulgence and self-satisfaction, for you know with an indestructible certainty that something greater is coming.
We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world outside, and the room is filled with light and noise. We close some of the doors deliberately, sometimes with fear, sometimes with calm certainty. Others seem to close by themselves, some so quietly that we do not even notice.
We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion
I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not overwhelming evidence, just enough to give HOPE, because for hope we don't need certainty, only POSSIBILITY.
Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.
A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty. . . ; like any other theory of empirical science, it can acquire only a more or less high degree of confirmation.
Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they cannot be obliterated easily.
Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.
Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.
Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of us. Many of us are never granted this kind of assurance. Certitude is not the real substance of faith. Faith is a way of seeing things.
And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.
I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.
What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death.
The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.
We are all of us invented. We are all of us cobbled together from cartilage and dust. Few of us know with certainty the name of our maker. But I do. . . Bram Stoker.
If the Bible is uniquely and inerrantly inspired, then we have certainty; we may know real truth about God
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.