Quotes about Trust

O, the lessons here for us! Name your discouraging setback—personal, political, scholarly, ecclesiastical, cultural, global. Dare any Christian say that God is not in this for the good of his people and the glory of his name? Not if our God is the God of Ezra! Do you think these setbacks are not without some great purpose of righteousness bigger and more stunning than any of us can imagine?

If we only trust Christ to give us gifts and not himself as the all-satisfying gift, then we do not trust him in a way that honors him as our treasure. We simply honor the gifts. They are what we really want, not him.

Did you wake up feeling fragile? Read the bible till you find a promise strong enough to carry you through the day.

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

Belief in Jesus does not come by the waving of a magic wand. It comes by hearing the word of God through Jesus.

When something drops into your life that seems to threaten your future, remember this: the first shockwaves of the bomb are not sin. The real danger is yielding to them. Giving in. Putting up no spiritual fight. And the root of that surrender is unbelief - a failure to fight for faith in future grace. A failure to cherish all that God promises to be for us in Jesus.

God is committed to rewarding those acts of the human heart that signify human helplessness and hope in God.

So waiting is a holy work Of faith in God. Nor does there lurk Beneath the timing of his ways Some secret malice that displays Itself in holding back the flow Of future grace. God does not go From here to there by shortest routes; He makes a place for faith and doubts. Nor does he hasten on his way, But comes when it is best, today, Or maybe twenty years from now, Or more.

The reason God knows the future is because he plans the future and accomplishes it.

If we are Christ's, then what befalls us is for His glory and for our good, whether it is caused by enzymes or by enemies.

The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.

The key that unlocks the treasure chest of God's peace is faith in the promises of God.