QUOTATION: Truth

Hypotheses may fascinate, but they do not satisfy. Whether we admit it or not, there comes for everyone the moment when personal existence must be anchored to a truth recognized as final, a truth which confers a certitude no longer open to doubt.

--Pope St. John Paul II, Fides et Ratio,  #27

QUOTATION:Certainty of Faith

Certainty of the faith is not ideology, moralism, or existential assurances, it is the living and nontransferable encounter with a person, with an event, with the living presence of Jesus of Nazareth.

--Pope Francis (Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio), Letter to the Catechists of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, 2012

QUOTATION: Faith and Certainty

Faith has two peculiarities;--it is most certain, decided, positive, immovable in its assent, and it gives this assent not because it sees with the eye, or sees with the reason, but because it receives the tidings from one who comes from God.

--Cardinal Newman, Faith and Private Judgment

QUOTATION: Faith Rests on God's Authority

He who believes that God is true, and that this is His word, which he has committed to man, has no doubt at all. He is as certain that the doctrine taught is true, as that God is true; and he is certain, because God is true, because God has spoken, not because he sees its truth or can prove its truth.

--Cardinal John Henry Newman, Faith and Private Judgment