Quotes about Trust

A healthy skepticism is good, even God-given. However, a need to cynically dismiss anything we cannot personally verify is arrogance.

Being wholly given over to God now is the essential and best possible preparation for future service.

Alan Redpath wrote of Caleb and Joshua's faith: "The majority measured the giants against their own strength; Caleb and Joshua measured the giants against God. The majority trembled; the two triumphed. The majority had great giants but a little God. Caleb had a great God and little giants.

Unfortunately, many young believers - and some older ones, too - do not know that there will be times in every person's life when circumstances don't add up - when God doesn't appear to make sense. This aspect of the Christian faith is not well advertised.

Christians can have doubts and they can have questions, and the unhealthy way to deal with that is to keep them inside where they fester and grow and can undermine our faith. The healthy way to deal with it is to talk about it and be honest about it.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

Don't be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you!

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.

The Bible is full of stories of men and women who've found themselves in frightening situations but who chose to look up rather than look down - look up in faith - and God got them through it.

A bird will only fall from the sky when it stops believing in its ability to fly, and a fish will only drown in water when it stops believing in its ability to swim.

When you have the world on your shoulders, God alone can help you carry it.