In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope.
Doubt is not a pleasant state but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Ah what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
I think I look good out there. I'm strong powerful and artistic. But I have my doubts as much as anyone.
The successful man is he who when he sees that no further certainty is attainable promptly decides on the most probable side as if he were completely sure it was right.
We sail within a vast sphere ever drifting in uncertainty driven from end to end.
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground and can never soar.
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.
Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing.
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
You know the doubts. You are good enough. You are important. You are worthy. You are kind. You are all you need to be. You are love.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
From a shy timid girl I had become a woman of resolute character who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.
I said here's the river I want to flow on here's the direction I want to go and put my boat in. I was ready for the river to take unexpected turns and present obstacles.
Lord, I believe; help my unbelief'... is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith.