Quotes about Trust

She'd once thought God would never intentionally hurt her. But looking back over her life, she'd had cause to rethink that. She was certain nothing touched her life that didn't first filter through the loving hands of her heavenly father. But she was also convinced that God sometimes wounded, in order to bind up. And that He shattered, so that His hands could heal. This was part of His inheritance she'd overlooked before, but never would again.

Yet even in such moments she didn't doubt that God existed. She just sometimes wondered if He remembered that she did.

Ridley nodded. 'She told me I couldn't ever tell General Harding or anybody else. Told me I wouldn't be safe.' 'Safe?' Uncle Bob stopped rocking and took the pipe from between his teeth. 'She started in talkin' 'bout you bein' safe, sir?' Ridley nodded again, and that's when Uncle Bob grinned. 'Well, shoot . . . you ain't lost her yet, sir. Not altogether, anyhow. Any female goes to talkin' 'bout you bein' safe . . . hmmph. There still be somethin' left in her heart for ya.

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Life is full of risks...that first step of faith was often taken neck-deep in fear.

I ain't one to question the Lord's goodness, but sometimes it sure feels like he can give a body too much to bear, don't it?

It wasn't the hand a person was dealt that determined the outcome—it was the person holding the cards who made the difference. And he'd laid his cards down long ago. At the foot of the cross.

I've never tried to imagine a world without God. This one seems hard enough as it is.

Molly?" "Yes?" He turned back and reached out as though to touch her, then stopped. "I'll wait. And when the time comes, whenever you're ready—if you're ever ready—all you have to do is . . ." He didn't complete the sentence. He didn't have to.

And yet, looking back on it now, she could see that God had been working on her behalf, even though she'd been blind to it.

he knew that nothing ever surprised the Creator of heaven and earth. As the circuit preacher had said a month or so ago, "God never leans over the balcony of heaven and gasps." James

I'll be your friend, Molly Whitcomb, the best friend I know how to be." He caressed the side of her face and traced her lower lip with his thumb. "Until you're ready for me to be something more.