Quotes about Trust

Through doubt we can learn more than through naive trust

said Oswald Chambers, "is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

We need to admit that we can't get through even the challenges of today--much less the problems that lie ahead--without some outside intervention.

I've noticed that two prayers in particular are among the riskiest a person can pray. [...] "God, open my eyes to who you really are, and then I'll open my life to you." [...] "God, here I am, fully submitted to you; use me as you have never used me before.

Biblical hope is the confident expectation that God is willing and able to fulfill the promises he has made to those who trust in him.

At the time of the crucifixion, the disciples couldn't see how anything good could result; similarly, as we face struggles and trials and suffering, we sometimes can't imagine good emerging. But we've seen how it did in the case of Jesus, and we can trust it will in our case too. For instance, the greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God—so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.

God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him. Those who want to follow the clues will.

But ultimately the truth is this: Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.

we can't be filled with the power of God until we let go of the false pretense that we can get by on our own.

Godly teachers encourage questions; those who demand unthinking agreement have something to hide.

believe in Jesus on the basis of the historical evidence, but my relationship with Jesus goes way beyond the evidence. I have to put my trust in him and walk with him on a daily basis.

Turn to God for help not as a last resort, but as a first priority.