Quotes about Trust

It requires powerful mercy for me to become a person who surrenders self-appointed authority to the authority of God.

God will remain faithful even when you're not, because his faithfulness rests on who he is, not on what you're doing.

Parenting is about being used of God to bring your children to that wholesome and heart-changing place of personal hopelessness. This is not a process of condemnation, but of patient and loving rescue.

Rest will only be found as you are willing to believe that there is Someone who is controlling the details of your life, not only for his glory, but also for your good.

It is only when the peace of God rules my heart that I can know real peace with you.

putting your entire existence in the hands of One whom you cannot see, touch, or hear is far from natural. This is why faith is only ever a gift of divine grace.

True biblical faith is always something that you live. If your faith does not reshape your life, it is not true faith.

Many people have talked to me about God in the middle of difficulties, and after listening to them, I have been struck that, if I believed in the "God" they described, I wouldn't run to him for help either, and I'd be in a panic

Your love is never your foundation; his eternal love is. Live in this hope.

We realize that God has us just where we need to be so that his purposes for us and his promises to us may come to pass.

When we deny our difficulties in order to feel immediate peace, we are not exercising biblical faith.

God knows that we are incapable of carrying the burden of sovereign knowledge that he carries, so he lovingly protects us by telling us what we need to know: we are to rest in him and live as he has ordained, while he protects us from what would overwhelm us.