Quotes about Trust

Randy Alcorn describes his own learning about being a steward: If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets. He had entrusted—not given— to me. A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.

Three facts distinguish a steward: 1) A steward gladly acknowledges that he or she belongs to the Lord.

Forgiveness is not reconciliation. It takes one sinner to repent, and one victim to forgive, but it takes both to reconcile. Therefore, unless there is both repentance by the sinner and forgiveness by the victim, reconciliation cannot occur

The inevitable result of borrowed faith is lost faith. People born into a family anchored in Christendom tend to assume they're right with God, regardless of whether they personally turn from sin and trust in Jesus.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

If it be a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God,It is a more terrible thing to fall out of them.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

Men cannot know each other till they have 'eaten salt together'.