Quotes about Trust

Forgiveness is an act of faith.

Though wrong does not disappear when I forgive, it loses its grip on me and is taken over by God, who knows what to do. Such a decision involves risk, of course: the risk that God may not deal with the person as I would want.

Sometimes God seemed as close as his wife or children. Sometimes he had no sense of God's presence, no faith to lean on. God is wild, you know, he wrote. We're not in charge.

When a couple encounters a crisis, it magnifies what's already present in the relationship.

Faith like Job's cannot be shaken because it is the result of having been shaken." C.

God took a great risk by announcing forgiveness in advance, and the scandal of grace involves a transfer of that risk to us.

True hope is honest.

We'll stay true to God only if our love becomes a decision.

Not until history has run its course will we understand how "all things work together for good." Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

That, I believe, is also what faith sometimes requires: trusting God when there is no apparent evidence of him—as Job did. Trusting in his ultimate goodness, a goodness that exists outside of time, a goodness that time has not yet caught up with.

For a society that seems adrift, without moorings, I know of no better place to drop an anchor of faith.

a hope for healing should be presented realistically. It is just that — a "hope," not a guarantee. If it comes, a joyous miracle has happened. If it doesn't come, God has not let you down.