Quotes About Trust

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives...

God knows, I'm no expert on relationships, but I do know when something's good. And this thing we've created between us is precious and rare. I only hope it's not fleeting, because for the first time in my adult life, I've given someone the power to hurt me.

God is there to give us strength for every hill we have to climb.

Linda Castillo

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What Ifs will either drive us to God and faith or they will drive us to worry and dependence on self. God gives peace and contentment; worry gives illness and misery.

Holy Father, forgive me for grumbling. I know I've sounded just like the Israelites. I long to dwell not on the If Onlys but on You. Make me wise like the old woodcutter — content with what I know, not perturbed by what I don't know.

His absolute sovereignty means that I can trust Him with my tiniest doubt or with my most heart-wrenching fear.

Faith looks to God, but feelings look to what is going on around us. Faith hopes in who God is and in what He has promised.

When confronted with negative circumstances, we have a choice: Will we pray about the problem or will we worry about it?

Are you going to judge God by the circumstances you don't understand or judge the circumstances in the light of the character of God?

Contentment is essentially a matter of accepting from God's hand what He sends because we know that He is good and therefore it is good."5

Instead of being anxious, we are to fix our focus on God and His righteousness.

We commit sin when we worry. We do not trust God when we worry. We do not receive answers to prayer when we worry, because we are not trusting.

It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It's when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him and to mind the present.

Never allow yourself to complain about anything — not even the weather. Never picture yourself in any other circumstances or someplace else. Never compare your lot with another's. Never allow yourself to wish this or that had been otherwise. Never dwell on tomorrow — remember that [tomorrow] is God's, not ours.1

Do you build up or do you destroy? What do you communicate to your husband when he walks in the door after work? Genuine encouragement, or dissatisfaction? Does your face light up when he talks to you, or does he see sneers and a lack of trust? A man can have everything outside of the home, but if the sincere respect of his wife and children is missing, he can be totally emasculated.

What do you communicate to your husband? One wife put it like this: I told God about his bad points, and I told him about his good points.

I knew God was displeased by my lack of forgiveness, but it was impossible to forget the words that were cemented in my heart. Betrayal hurts.

Her tomorrows belonged to God. She had given them to Him. And because all her tomorrows were nestled in God's strong arms, she was free to live today. One day at a time she could make the right choices and grow to possess the holy habit of contentment. Ella's focus was eternal, and her focus led to an internal contentment.

When we love, we open ourselves to the possibility of hurt.

Paul recognized that the source and strength of all Christian contentment is God Himself.

You can choose to be free of the love of money. You can be in control of your possessions rather than be controlled by what you have and what you want. It's a secret choice of the heart between God and you.

A quiet heart is content with what God gives.6