Quotes about Trust

Christ came to prove that God tells the truth, that God keeps his promises. Christmas means that God can be trusted.

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Oh! God, my only trust went there Through all life's scenes before Lo! At the throne again I bow, New mercies to implore. Grant active power, grant fervent zeal, And guide by thy control, And ever be my country's weal The purpose of my soul. Extend, all seeing God, thy hand In memory still decree And make, to bless thy native land An instrument of me. -September 21, 1817

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

The best of it is, God is with us.

Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst of the pain, from being afflicted by Him who loves us, and whom we love.

In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

none can trust in the merits of Christ, till he has utterly renounced his own.

Respect a man, and he will do all the more.

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.