Quotes about Trust
Then as she looked up in his face, he smiled most sweetly and said something he had never said before, "You have one real beauty, Much-Afraid, you have such trustful eyes. Trust is one of the much beautiful things in the world. When I look at the trust in your eyes I find you more beautiful to look upon than many a lovely queen.
— Hannah Hurnard
Our lives are full of supposes. Suppose this should happen, or suppose that should happen; what could we do; how could we bear it? But, if we are living in the dwelling place of God, all these supposes vanish and we shall be free from fear.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
The man who wavers in his faith is upset by the smallest trifles; the man who is steadfast in his faith can look on calmly at the ruin of all his universe.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
God's job is not to make sick people healthy. That's the doctor's job. God's job is to make sick people brave.
— Harold S. Kushner
God is the One who is with us when we have to do something we don't think we are capable of doing.
— Harold S. Kushner
I am not sure prayer puts us in touch with God the way many people think it does--that we approach God as a supplicant, a beggar asking for favors, or as a customer presenting Him with a shopping list and asking what it will cost. Prayer is not primarily a matter of asking God to change things. If we come to understand what prayer can and should be, and rid ourselves of some unrealistic expectations, we will be better able to call on prayer, and on God, when we need them most.
— Harold S. Kushner
Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.
— Harold S. Kushner
God does not send the problem; genetics, chance, and bad luck do that. And God cannot make the problem go away, no matter how many prayers and good deeds we offer. What God does is promise us, I will be with you; you will feel burdened but you will never feel abandoned. In
— Harold S. Kushner
I believe in the reality of God the way scientists believe in the reality of electrons. I see things happening that would not happen unless there is a God.
— Harold S. Kushner
What God does is promise us, I will be with you; you will feel burdened but you will never feel abandoned.
— Harold S. Kushner
God is a God I can believe in.
— Harold S. Kushner