Quotes about Trust

God is in the darkness and God is in the wilderness. I now know that by personal experience.

Even if you run from the wounders, you can't outrun God.

God cares about each of us and all of us — period! And because He really does love you — He really does care about you — you and I can run, but we can't outrun Him.

Don't blame God for the behavior of the people who have wounded you. I understand the desperate desire to run from them, but not from Him.

Run to God and cling to Him. God understands every verbal barb, every covert injustice, every emotional shard, every leering look, every jeering smirk. But He also keeps the books, and one day He will make everything right.

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.

Why worry when you can pray?

A problem not worth praying about is not worth worrying about.

A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail. A best friend is the one sitting next to you saying "boy was that fun."

I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - while I wrote my book on him - I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship.

Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.