Quotes about Distrust
Explanations are a substitute for trust.
- Tullian Tchividjian
The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.
- Winston Churchill
Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt.
- Maya Angelou
How could this congregation of Christians so unthinkingly absorb the world's fearful anxiety and hateful distrust—and so easily?
- Beth Moore
You can fool some people some times but you cant fool all the people all the time
- Bob Marley
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
- Aristotle
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
- James Madison
The loss of transcendence has left in its wake the flotsam of distrustful, cynical Christians, angry at a capricious God, and the jetsam of smug bibilolatrists who claim to know precisely what God is thinking and exactly what he plans to do.
- Brennan Manning
The tendency in legalistic religion is to mistrust God, to mistrust others, and consequently, to mistrust ourselves.
- Brennan Manning
Both trust and gratitude require the courage to take risks because distrust and resentment, in their need to keep their claim on me, keep warning me how dangerous it is to let go of my careful calculations and guarded predictions.
- Henri Nouwen
Relate to people as a conqueror and they will hide their real nature from you. Violence is the brother and distrust the sister of this way of life.
- Henri Nouwen
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
- Henry David Thoreau