Quotes about Uncertainty

The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.

The course of life is unpredictable... no one can write his autobiography in advance.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'

Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Each is liable to panic, which is, exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination.

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.

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?

We see through a glass darkly because all we want is to be comfortable.