And we've heard them pronounced with the
same confident assurance that, however mistaken and disappointed earlier millennial expectations may have been, this time we've got the scenario right.
The plaintiffs» lawyers had
made confident assurances in their complaint about a confidential source — their only barrier to dismissal of their suit — even though none of the lawyers had spoken to the source and their investigator acknowledged that she couldn't verify what (according to her) he had told her.
It is
confident assurance that what we hope for is going to happen» (Hebrews 11:1, NLT).
This kind of faith moves our «
confident assurance» away from our own self - centered ideals and toward the deeper things of our soul.
When Mr. Toynbee says, «The more I study the record the less of a fatalist I become,» he is speaking as one individual, but he expresses a judgment which is more and more finding support.19 Neither the fatalistic pessimism of Spengler nor the mechanistic optimism of Herbert Spencer, nor yet
the confident assurance of Professor Sorokin that we can chart the future on the basis of a scientific formula represent infallible truth.20 We may believe one or the other of them.
These confident assurances come from «Biofuels: A Solution for Climate Change,» a paper published in 1999 by the Clinton administration's Department of Energy.