126 examples of certitudes in sentences

The sensible is an impenetrable empire; but ideas are certitudes, and upon these he dwells with rapt and mystical enthusiasm,a great poetical rhapsodist, severe dialectician as he is, believing in truth and beauty and goodness.

Courage was another of his certitudes,that which animated the soldier on the battlefield with patriotic glow and lofty self-sacrifice.

It entered even into the Christian schools, especially at Alexandria; it has ever assisted and animated the earnest searchers after the certitudes of life; it has permeated the intellectual world, and found admirers and expounders in all the universities of Europe and America.

How concisely the historian compresses the incidents of patriarchal life, the rise of empires, the fall of cities, the certitudes of faith, of friendship, and of love!

what a poor exchange for the certitudes of faith and the simplicities of patriarchal times!

He gloried in the certitudes which consciousness reveals, as well as in the facts which experience and history demonstrate.

Not for the joys of a future heaven did he long, but for the realities and certitudes of earth,the placidity and harmony and peace of his soul, so long as it was doomed to the trials and temptations of the world, and a world, too, which he did not despise, but which he sought to benefit.

The soul can repose only on the certitudes of heaven; those who are joined together by the gospel feel alike the misery of the fall and the glory of the restoration.

What was a Vanity Fair, a Babel of jargons, a school for scandals, a mart of lies, an arena of passions, an atmosphere of poisons, such as that city was, in spite of wonders of art and trophies of victory and contributions of genius, to a man who loved the certitudes of heaven, and sought to escape from the entangling influences which were a hindrance to his studies and his friendships?

Buried in the blessed sanctities and certitudes of home,if this can be called a burial,those Christian women could forego the dangerous fascination of society and the vanity of being enrolled among its leaders.

He sought certitudes,elemental truths which sophistry could not cover up.

Plato and Augustine maintained that they are eternal verities, not to be explained by definitions, appealing to consciousness, in the firm belief in which the soul sustains itself; that there can be no certain knowledge without a recognition of these; that from these only sound deductions of moral truth can be drawn; that without a firm belief in these eternal certitudes there can be no repose and no lofty faith.

We quote his brief sayings as expressive of what we feel and know of the certitudes of our moral and intellectual life.

It is not with heaven or hell, or abstract inquiries, or divine certitudes, that we have to do, but the things of earth,things that advance our material and outward condition.

The certitudes of faith, of love, of friendship, are of small value when compared with the blessings of outward prosperity.

And if no new light can be shed on the Scripture text from which assumptions were made; if these assumptions cannot be assailed, if they are certitudes,then we can scarcely have better text-books than those furnished to the theologians of the Middle Ages, for no modern dialetician can excel them in severity of logic.

But great and beneficent as are these blessings, they are not the only certitudes, nor are they the greatest.

Deny these as the higher certitudes, and you rob the soul of its dignity, and life of its consolations.

The form that holds these certitudes of the soul may lose all its beauty by rudeness or neglect.

These are great certitudes.

And, in wellnigh every case, it is possible for him to give truthful answers that will conceal from his patient what he ought to conceal; for the best physician does not know the future, and his professional guesses are not to be put forward as if they were assured certitudes.

Even in those rude times there were the certitudes of religious faith, of domestic endearments, of patriotic devotion, of respect for parents, of loyalty to rulers, of kindness to the poor and miserable; there were the latent fires of freedom, the impulses of generous enthusiasm, and resignation to the ills which could not be removed.

It is the falling away of the foundations of the soul, the disappearance forever of what is most to be prized on earth,its celestial certitudes.

It is only the divine certitudes, which can exist under any external circumstances, that are of much account in our estimate of human happiness, and it is these which ordinarily escape the attention of historians when they paint the condition of society.

It seeks to penetrate the secrets of struggling humanity, at war often with those certitudes which are the consolation of our inner life.

126 examples of  certitudes  in sentences