Quotes about Trust

Here beyond men's judgements all covenants were brittle.

If I could plan my life I wouldnt want to live it.

You think sometimes I dont listen. I think you listen. I'm not so sure what you hear.

Don't worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don't have opposition, because you're probably not obeying God.

As you'll recall, what you believe — about who you are and who God is — determines how you behave. If you believe everybody is going to criticize you, you'll behave cautiously. If you believe you're probably going to fail, you're going to venture out tentatively. If, however, you believe that the one true Lord God is calling you, empowering you, leading you, and equipping you, then you will live boldly. Why? Because boldness is behavior born of belief.

No matter what I feel, I hold the assurance that God never leaves me.

When we live by faith, we believe that God has everything under control. But if we start to worry, how we live says the opposite.

The fact that God is sovereign over the distribution of gifts (1 Cor. 12:7) is no reason not to seek the gifts. God is sovereign over our food too, but though he desires to provide it for his children (see Matt. 6:25—34) and wants us to seek his kingdom first (Matt. 6:9—10, 33), he expects us to pray for him to provide our food (Matt. 6:11; 7:7—11).

Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha

So they won't be able to blow out my wanting you, nor the little glow there is between you and me. We'll be together next year. And though I'm frightened, I believe in your being with me.