Quotes about Trust

Seeing yourself as hopeless and helpless if left to yourself initiates and ignites your pursuit of God's grace.

We have peace because we know that he will complete the good things that he in grace has initiated in our lives.

There is a God of awesome grace who meets his children in moments of darkness and difficulty. He is worth running to. He is worth waiting for. He brings rest when it seems like there is no rest to be found.

God's purpose in controlling the details of your life (the exact length of it and the locations where you live) is so that at any moment in the middle of your unfolding story, you can reach out and touch him, because his rule makes him very near to every one of us. What each of us really needs in our finite and faltering humanness is not so much the success of our plans, but God himself.

Just like Adam, when we blame people and situations for our problems, below the surface we are also making accusations against God.

A good relationship is a good relationship because the people in the relationship never quit working on the relationship.

Forgiveness is a vertical commitment that is followed by a horizontal transaction.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

De moed van het vertrouwen neemt de angst voor het lot even goed als de angst voor de schuld in zich op. Deze moed zegt tot beide: "En toch."Dit is de ware betekenis van de leer der voorzienigheid. Voorzienigheid is geen theorie over zekere handelingen van God, maar het godsdienstig symbool van de moed van het vertrouwen ten aanzien van lot en dood. Want de moed van het vertrouwen zegt zelfs tot de dood: "En toch.

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.