Quotes about Trust

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Certainly. Of course. That's part of it. And always coming to school or when we're going home, you're to walk with me, when there ain't anybody looking — and you choose me and I choose you at parties, because that's the way you do when you're engaged.

My complaint simply concerns the decay of the art of lying.

It is easier to fool the people, than to convince them they have been fooled.

We used to trust in God. I think it was in 1863 that some genius suggested that it be put upon the gold and silver coins which circulated among the rich. They didn't put it on the nickels and coppers because they didn't think the poor folks had any trust in God.

Not a sparrow falls to the ground without His seeing it. But it falls, just the same. What good is seeing it fall?

Everybody lies—every day; every hour; awake; asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception—and purposely. Even in sermons—but that is a platitude. In

I do not wish to hear about the moon from someone who has not been there.

If I be not in a state of Grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.

After much reflection—suppose it was a lie? What then? Was it such a great matter? Aren't we always acting lies? Then why not tell them?

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants is back the minute it begins to rain.

I went right along, not fixing up any particular plan, but just trusting to Providence to put the right words in my mouth when the time come; for I'd noticed that Providence always did put the right words in my mouth if I left it alone.