Quotes about Trust

We can think that God is good, and we are pleased with him, though we might be pleased less with him than we are with the ease of our lives. Then, when life is hard—especially when life remains hard—the allegiances of our hearts.

God's self-revelation is a higher authority than our feelings.

God tests us because we are so oblivious to the mixed allegiances in our hearts. The purpose of the test is to help us see our hearts and if they are found traitorous, we can turn back to God.

Why didn't you just pray by faith?" He taught me one of the most important lessons of prayer: that prayer depended on God and his promises, not my own quixotic emotions.

Beneath our questions about God's generosity and his care for our needs is something darker. What we really care about is our wants.

God likes his people to be outnumbered because then there is no mistaking that he alone is the Deliverer.

Whatever our monument might be, we want it to be public, even if the public is one friend.

You barely realize what just happened. It is called faith. You just turned in Jesus' direction and you are listening. You want what he offers.

When in doubt, look at the Lord. Lift up your eyes (Numbers 21:4—9). That will be something it will take all your life to master, but what better time to start than now? Still, you can't imagine being an invited worshiper of God.

When you are fully confident that your Father is just, you know that injustice will not prosper. You will not become angry when offenses are committed against you because you will leave it in his hands.

Isaiah himself was only more aware of his shame as it stood in contrast to the perfection and purity of the Lord. It brought him to despair at his predicament. But despair is not a bad thing when it compels us to trust in or be associated with God himself.

Fear has given birth to extreme parenting. It looks like love, but it is love mingled with fear.