“I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty”
Source: The Kite Runner
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“Faith is not a certainty. Faith is the courage to live with uncertainty.”
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“He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
No. 57 (May 19, 1759)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love
Variant: So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) German philosopher
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, Lectures on the philosophy of religion, together with a work on the proofs of the existence of God. Vol 2 Translated from the 2d German ed. 1895 Ebenezer Brown Speirs 1854-1900, and J Burdon Sanderson p. 118
Lectures on Philosophy of Religion, Volume 2
Context: In the religion of absolute Spirit the outward form of God is not made by the human spirit. God Himself is, in accordance with the true Idea, self-consciousness which exists in and for itself, Spirit. He produces Himself of His own act, appears as Being for “Other”; He is, by His own act, the Son; in the assumption of a definite form as the Son, the other part of the process is present, namely, that God loves the Son, posits Himself as identical with Him, yet also as distinct from Him. The assumption of form makes its appearance in the aspect of determinate Being as independent totality, but as a totality which is retained within love; here, for the first time, we have Spirit in and for itself. The self-consciousness of the Son regarding Himself is at the same time His knowledge of the Father; in the Father the Son has knowledge of His own self, of Himself. At our present stage, on the contrary, the determinate existence of God as God is not existence posited by Himself, but by what is Other. Here Spirit has stopped short half way.
John Taylor (Latter Day Saints) (1808–1887) third president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints