This risk must be taken if our concern is the maximum probable human benefit rather
than the certainty of keeping our own consciences spotless.
As a mostly disinterested observer — a little hope is better
than a certainty of a slow - motion train wreck.
Common issues include: correct price & terms to offer, seller temperament & motivation, sensitivity to request for repairs, and other real estate challenges where important decisions are made primarily on intuition, backed by experience and education,
than certainty of fact.
Not exact matches
We don't know, but for important institutions we need a high level
of certainty that key decision - makers are exercising their judgment in the interests
of those they serve, rather
than themselves.
«As the most spectrum - constrained operator, this sale was more crucial to O2
than any
of its rivals and the result gives it the
certainty to continue its mobile - centric strategy in the UK market.
The Department concludes that it can best protect the interests
of retirement investors in receiving sound advice, provide greater
certainty to the public and regulated parties, and minimize the risk
of unnecessary disruption by taking a more balanced approach
than simply granting a flat delay
of fiduciary status and all associated obligations for a protracted period.
To put yourself in the right mode, he says, «You've got to develop an emotional sense
of certainty that what you have to offer is worth 10 times more
than what you are asking for in return.»
The one thing we can say with
certainty is that borrowers will encounter higher mortgage rates at the start
of 2017
than at the beginning
of 2016.
If her government had spent the last three years negotiating on aboriginal title with First Nations — rather
than spending millions
of taxpayers» dollars fighting a losing battle against the Tsilhqot» in — there would today be more opportunity and benefits for First Nations and greater
certainty for investors and workers on where and how LNG related pipelines and plants will proceed.
I used to live in a place
of absolute
certainty, where I wanted more
than anything to do everything right.
Interestingly enough, as I have learned to let go
of that need for absolute
certainty, I have become more certain
than ever
of what really matters.
Perhaps that confuses more
than clarifies my position but I'll be the first to admit that I have not yet found the clarity that I seek and yet I would rather be where I am now
than in the blind
certainty of previous years when I thought I had it all figured out but was in fact wearing blinders that made it easier to look straight ahead but caused me to miss out on so much
of the beauty
of God all around me.
``... a new culture is foreshadowed in the turbulence and spiritual confusion
of [our] times... our
certainty of imminent change is based... upon the worldwide breakdown
of established social order and traditional culture;... nowhere more marked or more disastrous
than within that civilisation... that goes by the name
of Christendom.»
Would you consider a person making a declaration
of certainty one way to be more or less honest
than one making a declaration
of certainty the other?
It gets under our skin, hits us at a level deeper
than our thoughts or even our passions, troubles oldest
certainties till all questions are reopened, and in general shocks us more fully awake
than we are for most
of our lives?
My own peculiar task in my Church and in my world has been that
of the solitary explorer who, instead
of jumping on all the latest bandwagons at once, is bound to search the existential depths
of faith in its silences, its ambiguities, and in those
certainties which lie deeper
than the bottom
of anxiety.
Questions
of historical events are difficult to be «certain» about, but when it comes to historical
certainty, the life, death, and resurrection
of Jesus is more «certain»
than most other historical events.
That is this lack
of clarity and
certainty which does not really help but bring us back to ourselves and our experiences and deeds rather
than trust in the proclamation
of grace.
As Elaine Scarry points out in The Body in Pain, to someone who suffers pain, nothing is more certain
than the pain; she suggests that the experience
of pain may be as close to a textbook case
of «
certainty» as we have.
No sooner had I reached the end
of the verse
than the light
of certainty flooded my heart and all dark shadows
of doubt fled away.»
It serves to establish a burden
of proof rather
than certainty.
Epistemologically, these experiences will be marked by the qualities
of openness, tentativity, and relativity, rather
than closedness,
certainty, or absoluteness.
But I would hope that published writers, especially Christian ones, would have a little more humility
than to speak with such
certainty about topics
of which they have limited knowledge and experience.
While this evidence does not make the Big Bang model a
certainty, it does make it much more likely
than any other model
of «the early development
of the universe» that has been suggested.
A
certainty of sign more current and personal
Than CNN blaring Balkan eruptions.At the back door a strange kinsman shakes The old mop over the porch rail, Scolding the dogs into silence in a cadence with the flailing, A ritual erasing the past, though the enduring sun Catches a sparkle
of the settling dust.
Moreover, for all the uncertainties
of long - term population forecasting, the likely change in size and composition
of a national population can be predicted over the course
of the coming calendar year with far greater
certainty than can changes in the harvest, the gross national product, the unemployment rate, the foreign exchange rate, or the demand for any particular product.
One thing, however, we can say with reasonable
certainty is that the large body
of sayings which he gives in common with Luke must have conic down to both, whether in writing or by word
of mouth, from a period much earlier
than the date at which the two authors wrote.2 It brings us that much nearer to the fountainhead.
The truth is that a God
of unlimited intelligence would loses no providential advantage anticipating possibilities rather
than a single
certainty.
So they hold Scripture to be a more secure source
of certainty than the Church.
Liberals encourage an openness to truth from any source, a tolerance for a variety
of viewpoints, and a humility that bases its claims on probabilities rather
than certainties.
In such a case, if it exists, the scientist would,
of course, be compelled to withdraw his assent to the legitimate teaching authority
of the Church, if it were supposed that he really considered the
certainty of the scientific «result» as definitively truer and surer
than the grounds which he had previously believed he possessed in justification for the claim
of the Church to teach.
The Church's pronouncements contain fundamentally nothing more
than a repetition
of the biblical account, and as regards content and degree
of certainty, have no intention
of going beyond the biblical text.
(ENTIRE BOOK) The
certainties of Christianity's past have gone, and we are caught up in a process
of cultural change more rapid and widespread
than ever before in human history.
Suffice to say that it is almost a
certainty that I have read FAR more widely
than you on this subject (for a period
of over 30 years).
Their error is no worse
than ours if we think ourselves any smarter... for we have no more
certainty than they, that is, the end will come for each
of us, sometime, somehow
This was created not so much by any moral ambiguity in his professions per se (though some inspired less
certainty than others) but by two features
of my own interpretive hardwiring as a Muslim.
Later on,
of course, Peter ran away from these
certainties; no less
than three times he denied knowing the man from Nazareth.
Because that's exactly what happened after I descended that platform and walked into a world inhabited not by the straw figures I'd been taught to defeat and convert, but by flesh - and - blood human beings who didn't stick to the atheist / Muslim / feminist / gay / liberal / poor / skeptic / foreigner script, a world less characterized by black and white
certainties than by mile after mile and year after year
of thick, impenetrable gray.
In speaking
of eternal life, Cranmer was wise to point to a blessed hope rather
than to a triumphant
certainty.
a truth fully appreciated in many historic segments
of Christianity that have chosen to live with the fragility
of this truth, rather
than with the
certainty — and presumed finality —
of magisterial truth.
While it's true, according to Pew, that more Republicans report believing in God
than Democrats, a majority — 55 % —
of Democrats still say they believe in God with absolute
certainty, and an additional 21 % say that they are fairly certain God exists.
I want the varnish off because it conceals a writer
of the eminence
of Shakespeare or Dante, and such a writer is worth more
than many creeds, many churches, many scholarly
certainties.
So he turns his back upon no duty, however thankless; and when we are in need
of assistance, we can count upon the saint lending his hand with more
certainty than we can count upon any other person.
For example, we know with
certainty that the Earth is roughly spherical and revolves around the Sun - not flat and at the center
of the solar system, as was once erroneously believed by people in a greater state
of ignorance
than ours at present.
Nothing is harder
than losing a child — and I imagine it's even harder when it's not the
certainty of death separating you, but the uncertainty
of not knowing.
(cf. 18:20 and 14:11); Jeremiah's profound grief, 8:4 - 9:1; his affinity with Hosea, 13:16 27 but in many other passages as well; the
certainty of destruction, 14:10 - 18; the quality
of the «Confession» in 15:10 - 18 (as also elsewhere) that brings Jeremiah closer to us
than any other figure in the Old Testament; the symbolic act again, chapter 19 — only Ezekiel among the prophets performs more such acts
than Jeremiah; the bitterest
of his confessions, 20:7 - 18, matched in the Old Testament only in Job (cf. Job 3); his association with Baruch in the remarkable narrative
of chapter 36, «in the fourth year
of Jehoiakim»; and his devastating words on Jehoiakim, 22: 13 - 19, bitter testimony to what was in Jeremiah's eyes the miserable rule
of a miserable king.
There is no promise
of security, or plenty, or peace in our time, or the victory
of this programme or that; any more
than there is
certainty that the «end
of the world», or
of our civilization, is inevitably impending.
Some time ago I made a discovery that somewhat surprised me: I found that I could communicate much better with people who disagreed with me but who were uncertain about their position
than with people who agreed with me but who held our shared views in a posture
of certainty.
No one can say that with
certainty considering that Man City value him lower
than Mangala in terms
of outlays.
I know with 100 %
certainty that I have far more in common with the average black American
than I do any
of the white celebrities out there.