Quotes about Trust
Just start thanking God in advance because no matter what is about to happen, you already know that God is in charge. You are not adrift in a sea of chaos.
— Elisabeth Elliot
No woman who has not learned to master herself can be trusted to submit willingly to her husband. And that word willingly means that she does not merely resign herself to something she cannot avoid. It means that by an act of her own will she gives herself.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Whatever dark tunnel we may be called upon to travel through, God has been there.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Faith is not a feeling. Faith is willed obedience in action.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The God who controls the wheeling galaxies and who spoke before the foundation of the world must be the God who holds the smallest circumstance of your life in His hands.
— Elisabeth Elliot
What we don't have now we don't need now. Possibly His very withholding is in order that the boy may learn, at this crucial juncture in his life, to turn to God in prayer for a deeply felt need.
— Elisabeth Elliot
But, in the words of a Portuguese proverb, "God writes straight with crooked lines", and He is far more interested in getting us where He wants us to be than we are in getting there. He does not discuss things with us. He leads us faithfully and plainly as we trust Him and simply do the next thing.
— Elisabeth Elliot
A willing acceptance of all that God assigns and a glad surrender of all that I am and have constitute the key to receiving the gift of a quiet heart. Whenever I have balked, the quietness goes. It is restored, and life immeasurably simplified, when I have trusted and obeyed.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Matters of the heart still can never put us beyond His love and redemption.
— Elisabeth Elliot
It's He who was the Word before the foundation of the world, suffering as a lamb slain. And He has a lot up His sleeve that you and I haven't the slightest idea about now. He's told us enough so that we know suffering is never for nothing.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.
— Elisabeth Elliot
I'm convinced that there are a good many things in this life that we really can't do anything about, but that God wants us to do something with.
— Elisabeth Elliot