Quotes about Trust
One must not rely on the dead," he said. "One must rely on the living—and on God who gives life to the living.
— Elie Wiesel
Behind the shutters, our friends of yesterday were probably waiting for the moment when they could loot our homes.
— Elie Wiesel
Do not make fun of God, even if He is making fun of you.
— Elie Wiesel
To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.
— Elisabeth Elliot
It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
— Elisabeth Elliot
God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. …To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the Rock-counsciousness of the promise given her, He goeth before.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.
— Elisabeth Elliot
She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.
— Elisabeth Elliot
The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Single life may be only a stage of a life's journey, but even a stage is a gift. God may replace it with another gift, but the receiver accepts His gifts with thanksgiving. This gift for this day. The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived—not always looked forward to as though the "real" living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.
— Elisabeth Elliot