The Myth of Certainty Quotes

“Nothing should be of higher value to the reflective Christian in difficult circumstances than an unqualified desire to see truth triumph. One should wish passionately that it prevail, should love it more than one's own prestige or sense of security.”
― Daniel Taylor, The Myth of Certainty: The Reflective Christian & the Risk of Commitment

“It is simultaneously the blessing and the curse of the reflective Christian that believers are called to live out their faith in the church. No institution has accomplished so much for good in the world; none has fallen so short of its calling! The church is God-ordained, God-inspired, but accomplishes its work through human beings subject to every possible failing.”
― Daniel Taylor, The Myth of Certainty: The Reflective Christian & the Risk of Commitment

“Where there is doubt, faith has its reason for being. Clearly faith is not needed where certainty supposedly exists, but only in situations where doubt is possible, even present.”
― Daniel Taylor, The Myth of Certainty: The Reflective Christian & the Risk of Commitment

“In the narrow application of logic to limited problems some degree of objectivity is perhaps possible. But in the broil of the wider human experience, in deciding what is good and true and beautiful and worth living for in this world, there is so much sheer humanness at work (and there should be, that the claim of cool, rational objectivity is almost laughable.”
― Daniel Taylor, The Myth of Certainty: The Reflective Christian & the Risk of Commitment