Quotes About Trust

the Pentateuch really intended to teach faith and belief in God and his promise. Obedience to the law, then, was the natural evidence that one had really trusted the Lord and believed his promise.

"Tell them that I came, and no one answered,That I kept my word," he said.

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.

The Reverend Jesse Jackson once said, "There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery—then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved."[

Yet when books have been read and reread, it boils down to the horse, his human companion, and what goes on between them.

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Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

read your Bible, go to church, say your prayers, and ask God to take care of you; then you need never fear dreams or anything else, for you must always remember that God has more power than the devil, and always will have.

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

no matter what my small sufferings are, I have a choice. I can either let them make me bitter, or I can meet them with the confidence that God will not abandon me.

Solo puedo describir la experiencia de conversión como una sensación de «dejarse llevar», de renunciar a todo esfuerzo o incluso a mi deseo de tomar las riendas de mi propia vida. Aunque suene demasiado simple, esa decisión ha condicionado a partir de entonces cada uno de los momentos de mi vida. Solo puedo llamarlo una conversión.

Faith is inseparable from love; out of these two twins hope is born.

Quizá Dios tenga que recordarnos con tremenda claridad que eso es exactamente lo que quería decirnos con esas palabras aparentemente tan simples del Sermón de la Montaña: «No estéis preocupados por vuestra vida: qué vais a comer; o por vuestro cuerpo: con qué os vais a vestir. Buscad primero el Reino de Dios y su justicia, y todas estas cosas se os añadirán».

Every moment of every man's life is precious in God's sight, and none must be wasted through doubt and discouragement. The work of the kingdom, the work of laboring and suffering with Christ, is no more spectacular for the most part than the routine of daily living.

If God had preserved him this far, a prisoner would tell you, if he had not rejected him with all his transgressions but had kept him alive until now, then surely he would not abandon him. That was the source of their confidence and trust in him.

I had continuously to learn to accept God's will—not as I wished it to be, not as it might have been, but as it actually was at the moment.

In failure or in success, in health or sickness, in sorrow or joy, man must turn to God, must trust in God, believing in him more each day, loving him more each day, in preparation for a future life with him.

Cada día, todos los días de nuestra vida, Dios nos pone delante personas y ocasiones con las que espera que actuemos. No espera más de nosotros, pero no aceptará menos; y faltamos a nuestra promesa y a nuestro compromiso si no descubrimos su divina voluntad en cada momento de cada día. Cualquier momento de la vida de los hombres es precioso a los ojos de Dios y ninguno se debe malgastar por culpa de las dudas o el desaliento.

This tendency to set acceptable conditions upon God, to seek unconsciously to make his will for us coincide with our desires, is a very human trait.

I am speaking only of a conversation with God, the spontaneous outpouring of a soul that has come to realize—however fleetingly—that it is standing at the knee of a loving and providing Father.

Thoughts of praise and of thanksgiving spontaneously arise, as well as questions and petitions and thoughts of friends and their needs, mingled with trusting confessions of failure and simple promises to follow in the future only what he would have us do.

I realized then, and I felt it more deeply each day, that true freedom meant nothing else than letting God operate within my soul without interference, giving preference to God's will as manifested in the promptings, inspirations, and other means he chose to communicate, rather than in acting on my own initiatives.

it was easy to float freely and euphorically into the future, ready to accept whatever God might have prepared for me there. But the future was now the present, and as is always the case, it was a lot more unmanageable and full of bustle than it had seemed in the abstract. Accordingly, my new spirit of interior resolve to search out and understand and accept God's will in every detail of every situation was quickly put to a rude test by the rough and ready realities of life.