Quotes about Trust

My shallow and ebb thoughts are not the compass Christ saileth by. I leave His ways to Himself, for they are far, far above me . . . There are windings and to's and fro's in His ways, which blind bodies like us cannot see.

Give Him leave to take His own way of dispensation with you; and though it be rough, forgive Him; He defieth you to have as much patience to Him, as He hath borne to you .

dare not thank myself, but I dare thank God's depth of wise providence, that I have an errand in me, while I live, for Christ to come and visit me, and bring with Him His drugs and His balm.

Learn to believe Christ better than His strokes; Himself and His promises better than His glooms .

If you knew particularly what to do, it were not a spiritual exercise.

God hath called you to Christ's side, and the wind is now in Christ's face in this land; and seeing ye are with Him, ye cannot expect the lee-side or the sunny side of the brae.

God chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.

O, that we could put our treasure in Christ's hand, and give Him our gold to keep, and our crown.

I see not the time of the fulfilling the promise; yet "Though the vision tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come and not tarry." (Hab. 2:3) We are to remember, God can trail his promise, in our seeming, through hell, and the devil's black hands, (as he led Christ through death, the curse, and hell,) and yet fulfill it. When Christ is under a stone, and buried, the gospel seems to be buried.

duties are ours, events are the Lord's.

Go where ye will, your soul shall not sleep sound but in Christ's bosom.

Faith is exceeding charitable, and believeth no evil of God.