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    Shelly Miller
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    Uncertainty provides rescue from being stuck in the familiar ways of life that keep us from moving forward into the purposes of God. Wandering into the wilderness of the unknown is God’s divine reorie...

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    Shelly Miller
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    Reframe uncertainty through the lens of the certainty of God’s love, and interpret current events from the perspective of promise that is never revoked.

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    Shelly Miller
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    The fear of uncertainty is rooted in this belief: God won’t meet me in the way I am desperate for him to show up. And our greatest certitude is this: God is already in the room.

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    Shelly Miller
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    The fear of uncertainty is rooted in this belief: God won’t meet me in the way I am desperate for him to show up. And our greatest certitude is this: God is already in the room.

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    Andy Stanley
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    Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.… The nature of leadership demands that there always be an element of uncertainty. The temptation is to thin...

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    Anthony Bourdain
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    I’m pretty sure that cheese and sausage are good. Other than that, it’s a world of confusion and uncertainty.

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    Dorothy Day
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    It is cheering to remember that Jesus Christ wandered this earth with no place to lay his head. “The foxes have holes and the birds of the air their nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his h...

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    James Hollis
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    Your ego prefers certainty to uncertainty, predictability over surprise, clarity over ambiguity. Your ego always wants to shroud over the barely audible murmurings of the heart.

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    Madeleine L'Engle
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    Romans 8:26, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Luke 22:44, Jeremiah 20:7-9, Job 13:15, Habakkuk 1:2, Psalm 42:11
    Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God,...

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    Rainer Maria Rilke
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    Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divining, perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys...

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    Thomas Merton
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    My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself. And the fact that I think I am following your...

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    Annie Dillard
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    We don’t know what’s going on here. If these tremendous events are random combinations of matter run amok, the yield of millions of monkeys at millions of typewriters, then what is it in us, hammered ...

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    Toby Mckeehan
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    Romans 8:28, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Jeremiah 17:7, Psalm 56:3-4, Philippians 4:6-7, Isaiah 41:10
    Faith isn’t a feeling; it’s a choice to trust God even when the road ahead seems uncertain.

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    Dick Ryan
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    Whatever happens to me in life, I must believe that somewhere, In the mess or madness of it all, There is a sacred potential— possibility for wondrous redemption In the embracing of all that is.

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    Eugene Peterson
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    The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become cl...

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    Mark Twain
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    When in doubt, tell the truth.

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    Rainer Maria Rilke
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    I would like to beg you… as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a fore...

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    Gunilla Norris
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    When we make room for silence we make room for ourselves.... Silence invites the unknown, the untamed, the wild, the shy, the unfathomable-that which rarely has a chance to surface within us.

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    J. Todd Billings
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    Our culture often suggests that we are “entitled” to a long, fulfilling life, and if that doesn’t happen, there must be someone to sue, someone to blame. When the word “cancer” is spoken, looking to t...

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    Oscar Wilde
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    The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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    Alain de Botton
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    The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others’ appraisals to play a determinin...

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    John R. W. Stott
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    Insistence on security is incompatible with the way of the cross. What daring adventures the incarnation and the atonement were! What a breach of convention and decorum that Almighty God should renoun...

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    Hannah More
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    There are three requisites to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings: a thankful reflection, on the goodness of the giver; a deep sense of our own unworthiness; and a recollection of the uncertaint...

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    Jacques Ellul
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    Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept...

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    Elisabeth Elliot
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    Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.

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    John Huston Finley
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    Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

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    Miguel de Unamuno
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    Romans 8:26, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Luke 22:44, Habakkuk 1:2, Jeremiah 20:7-9, Job 3:11
    Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation...
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