Quotes about Trust

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Hearts are made to be broken.

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.

At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him.

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having--viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life...

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.