Quotes about Trust

faith is only as good as its object.

Paul is not impressed with faith. What moves him is faith "in Christ Jesus

Jesus's disciples have faith, but their worry proves the weakness of their faith. Great faith comes not by looking inward, to the believing self, but by looking upward, to God. By faith we stop thinking like pagans, filled with anxiety about food and clothing. Pagans, thinking like orphans, worry. Disciples, thinking like children, relax.

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence, is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Nay, in many cases open denials of prayer prove the most excellent answers, and God's not hearing us is the most signal audience. Therefore at the foot of every prayer subscribe "thy will be done," and thou shalt enjoy preventing mercies that thou never soughtest, and converting mercies to change all for the best, resting confident in this, that having asked according to his will he heareth thee.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.