Quotes about Trust

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.

The change which takes place when we trust Jesus Christ is not only a change in our view of Christ. Through Christ, we look differently at both God's creation and our own circumstances.

Faith involves a certain subjectivity, ... a subjectivity which has meaning only as it is bound to the gospel.

Worthy partakers are those who confess their sins in self-abhorrence, humiliation, faith in God's promises, and gratefulness of heart. This is the 'worthiness' that belongs to the Lord's Supper. It is not at all meritorious in nature, but is in complete harmony with what is signified and sealed in the Lord's Supper. It is a worthiness that coincides with a confession of 'unworthiness' and with trust in the salvation of God.

The authority of God is unlike what is usually meant by "external authority" ... The authority of God brings perspective, joy and hope.

We must not get caught up in an emotional reaction against such phrases as 'believing on authority' ... Everything depends on the character of the authority and the character of believing.

Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.

Let us always confess when we cannot understand His methods that it is because we are finite, and He is infinite.

Faith is decisively determined by the object of faith, namely, God and His Word. This does not ... imply that Scripture ... derives its authority from the believer's faith: this idea is already rendered untenable by the very nature of faith, which rests on and trusts in the Word of God.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

Long-term marital intimacy requires accepting this truth: to stop giving yourself to your spouse is to spiritually divorce them.