Quotes about Trust

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.

I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version, there were no formulas, no set phrases that promised us safe passage across the abyss. There was only our tattered trust that the Spirit who had given us life would not leave us in the wilderness without offering us life again.

I had arrived at an understanding of faith that had far more to do with trust than with certainty. I trusted God to be God even if I could not say who God was for sure. I trusted God to sustain the world although I could not say for sure how that happened. I trusted God to hold me and those I loved, in life and in death, without giving me one shred of conclusive evidence that it was so.

I noted that it is sometimes hard to tell whether you are being killed or saved by the hands that turn your life upside down.

I wanted to recover the kind of faith that has nothing to do with being sure what I believe and everything to do with trusting God to catch me though I am not sure of anything.

What if I could learn to trust my feelings instead of asking to be delivered from them? What if I could follow one of my great fears all the way to the edge of the abyss, take a breath, and keep going? Isn't there a chance of being surprised by what happens next? Better than that, what if I could learn how to stay in the present instead of letting my anxieties run on fast-forward?

How do we develop the courage to walk in the dark if we are never asked to practice?

The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you," he said, "by the grace of God.

If I trust what I see on my phone more than what I see out my window, what does it mean to believe that the real world is not where I live?

An unguarded face is a deep well; you don't go there casually, without ropes or lamps.

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails. Wise people do not have to be certain what they believe before they act. They are free to act, trusting that the practice itself will teach them what they need to know.