Quotes About Trust

No matter what the outer appearance of things may be, let me think of the "bookmark prayer" of Saint Teresa of Avila: Let nothing upset you, Let nothing afright you. Everything is changing; God alone is changeless. Patience attains the goal. Who has God lacks nothing; God alone fills all her needs.

One of the most common blocks to effective directed prayer is the fear of failure.

Life is not always as it seems, but we can trust that a good intention will always carry us through even if the immediate results are not what we had in mind.

The twin flames of wisdom and trust continue to burn away any obscurations to our awareness of love's presence until we come to abide in the understanding that we are always cared for, always loved, always cheered on, regardless of the difficulties we may be experiencing.

I began to trust the questions themselves to lead me beyond answers to understanding, beyond practice to faith

The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.

When God has become a business, though, it is very hard for people to get the confidence to realize that God is really a personal God, a God who touches us as individuals, a God who is as close to us as we choose to see. We have learned well the remoteness of a God who lived for so long behind communion rails and altar steps and seminary doors and chancery desks that the experience of God, however strong, has always been more private secret than public expectation.

God's will for us is what's left over when we have done everything we can possibly do to get out of doing what we're doing rigth now.

Most important of all, perhaps, all the childhood images of God—God the Magician, God the Santa Claus, God the wrathful Judge, God the Puppeteer—disappear. We know now that the God of Creation has shared power with us and remains with us to help us see life through. Our role is to do our part, to do our best, to trust the path.

Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

I feel as though I can only hold it together if I don't worry too much about its falling apart. (288)

The little girl's dependency on her father made [his] abuse more insidious.

She knew she needed Lynn, so she wouldn't get angry at her. Jo's parents had taught her long ago that it was not safe to get angry at someone she depended on. (53)

The Flock have come a long way in their acceptance of this, and when a professional refused to deal with them in a straightforward manner and, in fact, manipulated and deceived them in return-they rebelled fiercely but self-protectively.

Jo knew she had to be utterly truthful, even when her version of the truth conflicted with what Lynn wanted to hear. Truth was vital to Jo, because she had a hard enough time keeping track of the spotty reality she experienced.

Steve said he was glad that I trusted him to develop relationships with the other personalities. He knew that my acceptance of them was a sign of greater health, but he really liked me best and wanted to know when I'd be integrated—when the other personalities would be gone. "Look, Steve," I said, "whether you like it or not, all of the personalities are part of this entity. No personality is ever going to disappear.

You remember I said last night that you were my secret?" Anna nodded. "I knew just what you meant. You're mine.

Didn't you know, you're my secret?

Anna turned away abruptly. "You needn't bother," she said. But the girl held her back. "No, don't go! Don't be such a goose. I want to know you! Don't you want to know me?

There was a picture over the bed, a framed sampler in red and blue cross-stitch, with the words Hold fast that which is Good embroidered over a blue anchor. Anna looked at this with mistrust. It was the word "good". Not that she herself was particularly naughty, in fact her school reports quite often gave her a "Good" for Conduct, but in some odd way the word seemed to leave her outside. She didn't feel good…

if she was over-sure of meeting her, that would be the time she would not come.

Joan Hiatt Harlow

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