Quotes about Trust
Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.
— Philip Yancey
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.
— Philip Yancey
Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
— Philip Yancey
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
— Phillips Brooks
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.
— Phillips Brooks
If you hold a rose up before a man and he shuts his eyes tight and just holds out his hands and says "Here, I am ready to be persuaded; convince me by touch that your rose is red;" then you are helpless.
— Phillips Brooks
The Lord is my shepherd and nothing is wanting to me. In green pastures He hath settled me.
— Phyllis Tickle
Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven.
— Pierre Corneille
Do your duty and leave the rest to the gods.
— Pierre Corneille
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead
— Pierre Corneille
Losing your faith is an essential part of having a three-dimensional, vivid, vibrant faith.
— Pete Holmes
I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid?
— John Piper