Quotes about Trust

We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human and visible means, nor rests in any visible end. He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.

It can be said, without fear of error, that our meditation is as good as our faith.

Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this.

True simplicity implies love and trust—it does not expect to be derided and rejected, any more than it expects to be admired and praised.

Those who imagine that they can discover special gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace.

I don't even need to know precisely what I am doing, except that I am acting for the love of God.

Without courage we can never attain to true simplicity. Cowardice keeps us "double minded" —hesitating between the world and God.

Hope deprives us of everything that is not God, in order that all things may serve their true purpose as means to bring us to God. Hope is proportionate to detachment.

I believe with Diadochos, that if at the hour of death my confidence in God's mercy is perfect, I will pass the frontier without trouble and pass the dreadful array of my sins with compunction and confidence and leave them all behind forever.

But true faith must be able to go on even when everything else is taken away from us.

THE most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys the attractions of an interior voice but will not listen to other men. He identifies the will of God with anything that makes him feel, within his own heart, a big, warm, sweet interior glow. The sweeter and the warmer the feeling is the more he is convinced of his own infallibility.

As soon as one is conscious of the presence of the Master, one must, in all passivity, abandon the work to Him.