Pastoral Resources

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

We have to be mindful that there is the certainty that terrorists will attempt to launch multiple attacks against their enemy, which is us and our allies.

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.