But the triumphant certitude and consciousness of a large world-wide mission is all shadowed in the next clause.
But probably it originated an increased certitude of the consciousness which dawned, in His answer to Mary, of His unique divine sonship.
I have the practical certitudethat soon afterwards they went together in a hansom to see the ship--as agreed.
This certitude would have made her put up with worse torments.
It is not doubt, but certitudethat drives one mad.
What certitude would the learned themselves have on this point without the help of the church?
It was not doubt, but the certitude that the keel of the Sofala must be stirring the mud now, which made him peep over the side.
There was "something wrong" with a vengeance, and the moral certitude of it was at first simply frightful to contemplate.
He was certain of his facts--but such a certitude counted for little against the doubt what answer would be pleasing.
And having arrived there, Descartes is at a dead stop, for from the certitude of one's own existence nothing can be deduced save the certitude of one's existence.
It is certitude with regard to spiritual realities, upon the testimony of our rational nature and upon the testimony of God.
Objective certainty must become subjective certitude in order to be a scientific theology.
Even upon this view there still remains the difficulty of perceiving how there can be in God's mind a subjective certitude with regard to acts in respect to which there is no assignable objective ground of certainty.
Mankind, frail parasite of doubt, seeks ever for a sign, conceives no certainty but the enormous certitude of uncertainty.
Certitude of course is a point, but doubt is a progress; I was not near certitude yet.
In the third part of this narrative I spoke of certitude as the consequence, divinely intended and enjoined upon us, of the accumulative force of certain given reasons which, taken one by one, were only probabilities.
The little man flung this challenge forth to the whole group, then leaned back in his deck chair, sipping lemonade with an air commingled of certitude and watchful belligerence.
And they were chilled, as well, with certitude that theirs was the losing corner.
Now, if my certitude is perfect in the case in which I reason on pure space determinations, must I not suppose that, in the other cases, the certitude is greater the nearer it approaches this extreme case?
Their coming could have been predicted with the same certitude that astronomers to-day predict the outcome of the movements of stars.
He was all interested attention, and waited for me to go on, though I could see in his eyes the certitude that my convictions had been shaken.
And through it all, with a serenity and certitude that was terrifying, continued to rise the form of that monster of the ages, the Oligarchy.
How could I communicate to another that certitude which was in my mind, the more absolute because without proofs that one could produce?
Somehow they had sensed that there was something wrong; and whatever impression they might have formed for themselves I had the certitude that it would not be for them a matter of grins at my expense.
The veil parts, and he sees a "light and vision, which give to the contemplating spirit a conscious certitude that she sees God, so far as man may see Him in mortal life.
The certitude that we possess Him when we desire Him is as absolute.
It struck him with the force of manifest certitude that the revolver had been taken only late in the day, or on that very night.
In this momentarily soothing certitude her bodily fatigue asserted itself, the more overpoweringly since its cause was not so much the demand on her strength as the awful suddenness of the stress she had had to meet.
Neat and trim and modestly sweet was the bungalow, redolent of comfort and repose, telling with quiet certitude of some one that knew, and that had sought and found.
He scanned her little shoulders and slim waist, and knew in all certitude that with his two hands he could rend her to pieces.
The certitude of victory cette fois-ci--a certitude coming so miraculously a few months after incertitude and doubt--was the explanation of the fierce mad joy expressed in the pandemonium around us.
The doubters have perished, whilst he that turned, guided by the light of assurance, unto the Dayspring of Certitude hath prospered.
We beseech God to bestow upon the superstitious a portion of the living waters of certitude which are streaming from the wellspring of the Most Sublime Pen, that all may attain unto that which becometh these days.
Who are those in whom we shall find the complete certitude of these truths, so important to all?
What we poor men need, is a certitude of a God who loves us and cares for us, has an arm that can help us, and a heart that will.
If we love, we shall possess an experience which verifies the truth for us, will give us an irrefragable demonstration which will bring certitude to ourselves, however little it may avail to convince others.
There is no certitude firm enough for us to find sustaining power against life's trials in resting upon it, but in Christ.
This compaction in love will lead to a wealth of certitude in the possession of the truth.
Religious certitude has for its foundation the feeling of subjective life, or moral evidence.
It is not surprising, lastly, that these two kinds of knowledge or of certitude should spring up and propagate themselves by different means.
He that persists in distinguishing between the thing in itself and the phenomenal thing will never be able to give an account of the objectivity of the sciences of Nature, and of the kind of certitude that belongs to them.
It is easy to see that in the great prophets of Israel the formula Thus saith the Lord, while still frequent and still expressing the same subjective certitude of inspiration, has become a simple rhetorical form.
Scientific certitude has at its basis intellectual evidence.
We must not say that in the one the certitudeis greater than in the other.
The maid-servant, Jane Flinders, swears with equalcertitude to hearing Durnford come in at a quarter-past ten, and more than half the issue turns on this point.
