Quotes About Trust

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.

I can not trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

Indeed; even in the Ayurvedic texts, a student is advised to first test a prospective guru thoroughly, and only when he is satisfied with the guru's capabilities should he submit his name as a candidate for discipleship. Then the guru gets his turn to test.

Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.

Vanye: You're asking me to kill you. Luthiel: I'm asking you to save her.

To make belief the touchstone of the kingdom's operation is simply to turn faith into just one more cold work. Of course we must believe; but only because there is nothing left for us to do but believe.

If, while we hold our times here in our own hands, all we have to do to be reconciled is believe he has them in his, how much less will we have to do there when we shall see they are in Christ's hand alone - that is, see them held for our eternal enjoyment as all right?

What saves us is Jesus, and the way we lay hold of that salvation is by faith. And faith is something that, throughout this book, I shall resolutely refuse to let mean anything other than trusting Jesus. It is simply saying yes to him rather than no. It is, at its root, a mere "uh-huh" to him personally.

The only reason that judgment comes into it at all is the sad fact that there will always be dummies who refuse to trust a good thing when it's handed to them on a platter.

So what if God made a "mistake"; if the Someone who set up the world so that evil is possible is willing to commit suicide over that mistake rather than blame you for it, then trusting such a person doesn't seem like an altogether bad idea.

While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. He has taken the cleanup entirely into his own hands. He has just gone and done it without waiting for us; and he invites us simply to trust that he has it all accomplished for us in Jesus—and to proclaim that trust by acting as if we really believed it.

Grace cannot prevail until our lifelong certainty that someone is keeping score has run out of steam and collapsed.

The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful.

Well, fathers and sons… one way or the other, they always disappoint each other.

he most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true.

The most effective lie is ninety-nine percent true.

There's nothing like surrounding yourself with people who actually like you just the way you are–people who are not trying to improve you, change you, manipulate you, save you, etc. There is a line. On one side of the line are those who will give you the news–good, bad, and indifferent. They care about you and your success. On the other side of the line are those who do not actually care about you and have motives other than true support.

The nearest friends can goWith anyone to death, comes so far shortThey might as well not try to go at all.

I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.

It certainly is no proof that a man is inspired simply because he is right.

But I will tell you what I say to my children: 'Go where you will; commit what crime you may; fall to what depth of degradation you may; you can never commit any crime that will shut my door, my arms, or my heart to you. As long as I live you shall have one sincere friend.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.