Quotes about Trust

You may think you find peace in Christ when you have no outward troubles, but is Christ your peace when the Assyrian comes into the land, when the enemy comes?...Jesus Christ would be peace to the soul when the enemy comes into the city, and into your houses.

In active obedience, we worship God by doing what pleases God; but by passive obedience, we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.

Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.

It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does.

The one unbeliever is sanctified by his holy and believing family. For, when a man is surrounded by a believing crowd of children and grandchildren, he is as good as a candidate for the faith.

When you go through deep waters and great trouble, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown!

Don't you know that the Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth? He never grows faint or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding. He gives power to those who are tired and worn out; he offers strength to the weak. Even youths will become exhausted, and young men will give up. But those who wait on the Lord will find new strength. They will fly high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.

The Lord is my strength, my shield from every danger. I trust in him with all my heart. He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy. I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.

For a long time I've concentrated on how small I am, how little I have to offer," Vicki continued. "That's not the point. The point is how big God is and what he wants to do." Shelly

Isaiah Jim Dekker had included with his last e-mail: "But Lord, be merciful to us, for we have waited for you. Be our strength each day and our salvation in times of trouble.

You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, whose thoughts are fixed on you!

Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.