Quotes about Trust

Whenever man touches God's delegated authority he touches God within that person; sinning against delegated authority is sinning against God.

Whatever prayer is not according to God's will is utterly

God never asks us to do anything we can do. He asks us to live a life which we can never live and to do a work which we can never do. Yet, by His grace, we are living it and doing it.

The life of faith can be called the life of the will since faith is impervious to how one feels but chooses through volition to obey God's mind. Though the Christian may not feel like obeying God

God is well able to deal with our sins; but He cannot deal with a man under accusation, because such a man is not trusting in the Blood.

Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you must'nt shirk it. Love, after all, hopeth all things. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

But faith is not necessarily, or not soon, a resting place. Faith puts you out on a wide river in a boat, in the fog, in the dark. Even a man of faith knows that (as Burley Coulter used to say) we've all got to go through enough to kill us.

The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.

I began to trust the world again, not to give me what I wanted, for I saw that it could not be trusted to do that, but to give unforeseen goods and pleasures that I had not thought to want.

I am an ignorant pilgrim, crossing a dark valley. And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led—make of that what you will.

After you have said "thy will be done," what more can be said?

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.