Quotes About Trust

Don't just invest in ammo and electric fences, invest in people and relationships.

The truth is, intentions are invisible. We assume them from other people's behavior. In other words, we make them up, we invent them. But

Studies show that while few people are good at detecting factual lies, most of us can determine when someone is distorting, manufacturing, or withholding an emotion.

Secondly, I believe the pieces of the puzzle fit together to describe a people who tend to be more individualistic, with a do-it-myself mentality. Cascadians are, for example, less trusting of religious organizations, and place higher value on their own personal religious or spiritual beliefs. Cascadians think that they can make a difference in politics — outside of voting.

Andrew Grenville's tailored polling reveals Cascadians tend to be less trusting of religion and more tolerant of marijuana (see above) and homosexual relationships than others across the continent. Even though Cascadians' individualism could harm their chances of building strong communities, Grenville believes that their live-and-let-live attitude, optimism and self-responsibility could create a culture that serves as a beacon to the planet.

When you keep your sexual conversations, behaviors, pornography, or masturbation a secret, you are

There are two basic approaches to life- one in which the world is a world of scarcity, given to us by the skinflint god, and the other in which the world is a world of endless possibilities, bestowed on us by a loving Father.

Joy is deep satisfaction in the will of God, and this must be coupled with recognizing the reality that God's will is everywhere and in everything. There is no place where we may go and be allowed to murmur or despair because God's will is somehow "not there.

Our God is able to deliver us, but even if He does not, be it known, o king, that we will not consent to applaud the use of a man as though he were a woman.

Our good God, our overflowing God, our God of yes and amen, has always been able to promise far more than we are able to believe.

Covenant vows, covenant oaths don't move. They are to be the foundation. Your feelings and sentiments do move. What happens if you make them the foundation? When they go up and down, the whole house goes up and down—like living in a volatile earthquake zone.

One of the things that modern Christians have a hard time doing right is loyalty.

saving faith always looks to Christ and his promises. Saving faith does not focus on the presence or absence of saving faith. We are supposed to be looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. We are not to be looking at ourselves, trying to determine if we are believing or not. "Myself believing" is not the proper object of my faith. Christ is the object of our faith.

God shakes what can be shaken so that what cannot be shaken may remain (Heb. 12:27).

The future, like salvation, is the gift of God, and it must be apprehended by faith alone.

They always wanted to do it for the children. But they never do, turns out, and the children go home crying, not having received the candy they were promised.

We ought not to think that when men are converted, they each become a little lamp, and if enough of them get converted, they will be able to form a consortium and pool their lamps to try to make a sun. The vision of the coming noontime glory does not depend at all on us trying to get some momentum up. The sun has risen, and it will continue to do what rising suns do.

I didn't know the stakes at the start. But I do know now, and now is when God decided to let me know what the stakes might be. Maybe He didn't trust me with that info earlier.

Faith is not wishful thinking; faith apprehends the promises of God found in Scripture. "The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee" (Ps. 102:28). Faith sees a son as established, and the work of faith goes on to establish him. Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda.

We are like fruitflies, measuring everything in terms of our own lifespan. But since our lifespans are so short, our perspective is entirely wrong. God, who inhabits eternity, sees things differently. He knows that our lives are just a mist. We should trust Him. It was not that long ago that Jesus came and it will not be that long before He returns.

I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust.

78. And there are among them (Jews) unlettered people, who know not the Book, but they trust upon false desires and they but guess.

The presence of God is never a matter of certainty but always a matter of faith