Quotes about Trust

Lord, steady our feet when the world tries to rock and shake our faith. When materialism beckons with coy hands, steady our feet. When lust sashays within us, steady our feet. When fear tugs at our knees, steady our faith. Show us your goodness, and steady our hearts in you. Amen.

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So often we think it is our job to push people, and it really is a lack of faith that the Spirit is already at work in them, leading them. We think the Spirit can't work without us jumping in to help make sure they know what the Bible says, or this or that.

Idols are things we put our trust in. They are not God, but we treat then like they are. They take on a transcendent, magical character. We hold them with a sacred reverence that should only be given to God. We are willing to die for them and kill for them and sacrifice our children for them.

I have come to believe that when we live in a way that requires miracles, we will start to see them.

What if I had not believed that I should see the goodness of the LORD : in the land of the living! O tarry and await the LORD's pleasure; be strong, and he shall comfort your heart : wait patiently for the LORD.

Augustine of Hippo: "In affliction, then, we do not know what it is right to pray for. Because affliction is difficult, troublesome and against the grain for us, weak as we are, we do what every human would do. We pray that it may be taken away from us. However, if he does not take it away, we must not imagine that he has forgotten us. In this way, power shines forth more perfectly in weakness.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen. Come, let us bow down and bend the knee : let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. Song "I Will Trust in the Lord" Father, I stretch my hand to you : no other help I know. Psalm 70:1 — 6

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow.

The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.

Peace is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of Christ.

Whether Jesus calms the storm or calms us in the storm, His love is the same, and His grace is enough.