Quotes about Trust

First off, we must be confident that God wants to give us more of himself.

Whatever isn't born out of deep confidence in God is sin. That includes our personality and our approach to life.

Finally, we choose to believe it's happening.

You make no agreements with whatever the temptation or accusation is.

That's exactly what we do to find more of God—we practice belief. We exercise it.

The intellectual support for UNBELIEF is about as stable as the stock market.

You have been entrusted with the heart of another human being. Whatever else your life's great mission will entail, loving and defending this heart next to you is part of your great quest.

Must live maturely, knowing that whatever else is happening, we must preserve the relationship if we would find our way.

The worst blows typically come from family.

Faith is something that looks backward - we remember the ways God has come through for his people, and for us, and our belief is strengthened that he will come through again. Love is exercised in the present moment; we love in the now. Hope reaches into the future to take hold of something we do not yet have, may not even see.

Yet this is the world God has made—a world that requires us to live with risk. Because God wants us to live by faith.

As did Jesus, when he said to his dear ones, "I am sending you out like sheep among wolves" (Matt. 10:16). The metaphor so perfectly describes our situation we almost want to smile—like when the young bride and groom are waving good-bye and the grandfather leans over to the grandmother and whispers, "They have no idea what they've just gotten themselves into." The humor of absurd understatement.