Quotes about Trust
We cannot do it without Him. He will not do it without us.
— Dutch Sheets
A lack of endurance is one of the greatest causes of defeat, especially in prayer. We don't wait well. We're into microwaving; God, on the other hand, is usually into marinating.
— Dutch Sheets
What God asks us to do, He equips us to do.
— Dutch Sheets
Last, this great "mountain of friendship" will also become for you a place of refuge.
— Dutch Sheets
Oh, I am—it's much safer to be fond of dangerous people.
— Edith Wharton
But he would see clearer, breathe freer in her presence: she was at once the dead weight at his breast and the spar which should float them to safety.
— Edith Wharton
Here were two people who had penetrated farther than she into the labyrinth of the wedded state, and struggled through some of its thorniest passages; and yet both, one consciously, the other half-unaware, testified to the mysterious fact which was already dawning on her: that the influence of a marriage begun in mutual understanding is too deep not to reassert itself even in the moment of flight and denial.
— Edith Wharton
What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, as a decent fellow, to conceal his past from her, and hers, as a marriageable girl, to have no past to conceal.
— Edith Wharton
But these mysteries, and many others, were closely locked in Mr. Jackson's breast; for not only did his keen sense of honour forbid his repeating anything privately imparted, but he was fully aware that his reputation for discretion increased his opportunities of finding out what he wanted to know.
— Edith Wharton
What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe.
— Edith Wharton
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
— Edmund Burke
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
— Edmund Burke