Quotes about Trust

But in surrender you have won.

Do you still believe that I am the Resurrection and the Life? Even when you don't get what you want? Even when nothing makes sense?

It may strike you as a small miracle that you have someone in your life, whose taste you admire, who will tell you the truth and help you stay on the straight and narrow, or find your way back to it if you are lost.

One of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.

God gives us Her own self. Left to my own devices, I would prefer answers. This is why it is good that I am in charge of so little: the pets, the shopping, the garden.

If you want to know how God feels about money, look at who she gives it to

Her message was always the same: God loved the world, all evidence to the contrary, and we must not give up on God.

I tried to cooperate with grace, which is to say, I did not turn on the TV.

My elderly priest friend Terry says, "Don't try harder—resist less.

All it takes is one safe person to listen, to hear, to noodge us to start over and not give up.

You need to trust yourself, especially on a first draft, where amid the anxiety and self-doubt, there should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.