Quotes about Trust

never permit the patient to pass to the doctor the responsibility of judging.

my daughter at about six years of age asked me the question, "Why do we speak of the good Lord?" Whereupon I said, "Some weeks ago, you were suffering from measles, and then the good Lord sent you full recovery." However, the little girl was not content; she retorted, "Well, but please, Daddy, do not forget: in the first place, he had sent me the measles.

One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.

They never saw him drawing pictures of them naked at their antics in his notebook.

this admirable fabric of the masculine intelligence, which ran up and down, crossed this way and that, ... upholding the world, so that she could trust herself to it utterly ... Then she woke up. It was still being fabricated.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

I hear Jesus telling us to stop negotiating with Him, to stop offering something we think we have in exchange for His blessings.

There's never a moment in all our lives, from the day we trusted Christ till the day we see Him, when God is not longing to bless us. At every moment, in every circumstance, God is doing us good. He never stops. It gives Him too much pleasure. God is not waiting to bless us after our troubles end. He is blessing us right now, in and through those troubles. At this exact moment, He is giving us what He thinks is good.

Yes, she believed God loved her. But if this whole fiasco was His idea of love . . .

Father, I leave them in your hands, for mine are far too small and weak. You are God, and I thank you.

Heavenly Father, you must think us such silly creatures, always worrying about tomorrow and letting today slip by.

God had not turned a deaf ear. He had been waiting for her to listen, as He always did.