Quotes about Trust

Knowing that even though you see only through a glass darkly, even though lots of things happen - wars and peacemaking, hunger and homelessness - joy is knowing, even for a moment, that underneath everything are the everlasting arms.

We believe in God when for one reason or another we choose to do so. We believe God when somehow we run into God in a way that by and large leaves us no choice to do otherwise.

Know that neither to have the child nor not to have the child is without the possibility of tragic consequences for everybody yet be brave in knowing also that not even that can put us beyond the forgiving love of God.

Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets. All these also did not receive what was promised but greeted it from afar, and then there are all those who did not much believe in the promise to begin with, and it is not always possible to tell the two apart.

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.

You cannot always depend on prayers to be answered the way you want them answered but you can always depend on God. God, the loving Father often denies us those things which in the end would prove harmful to us. Every boy wants a revolver at age four, and no father yet has ever granted that request. Why should we think God is less wise? Someday we will thank God not only for what He gave us, but also for that which He refused.

Say to yourself over and over again regardless of what happens: "God loves me!" And then add: "And I will try to love Him!

A young husband with an unfaithful wife, who is consecrated and dedicated to continence, eats daily of the Bread of Life so that the bride may one day return to both the home and the faith.

There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find Him.

Evil is revealed when there is seen what it does to one who is loved.

The greatest poverty of all—the spiritual poverty of seeming abandonment by God.