Quotes about Trust

Trust not your security to one who puts his own interests first.

There are only two kinds of politics. They're not radical and reactionary or conservative and liberal or even Democratic and Republican. There are only the politics of fear and the politics of trust. One says you are encircled by monstrous dangers. Give us power over your freedom so we may protect you. The other says the world is a baffling and hazardous place, but it can be shaped to the will of men.

I will never be able to do or be everything you want, nor vice versa, but I'd like to think we can be the sort of people who will dare to tell each other who we really are. The alternative is silence and lies, which are the real enemies of love.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but Do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test. Do you love me stripped of everything that might be lost, for only the things I will have for ever?

Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.

A spouse who gets angry at having been betrayed is evading a basic, tragic truth: that no one can be everything to another person.

The provision is in the promises.

Worrying was like sitting in a rocking chair—all that work and no progress.

How does a blind man say he was wrong? I thought you were lost, but you were never lost to God.

God was God, and the why was His. Senseless to protest and rant when God didn't ask humans to help Him make decisions.

Want to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.

How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe.