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Quotes About Trust

That's what humility means—learning to accept disappointments and even defeat as God-sent, learning to persevere and carry on with peace of heart and confidence in God, secure in the knowledge that something worthwhile is being accomplished precisely because God's will is at work in our life and we are doing our best to accept and follow it.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
Striving instead to eliminate all self-will, to accept God's will revealed in the circumstances of daily life, is the surest way to achieve growth in conformity to the will of God.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
La humildad significa eso: aprender a aceptar el desánimo e incluso la derrota como enviados por Dios; aprender a perseverar y seguir adelante con el corazón en paz y confiando en Dios, seguros de que lo que suceda merece la pena, por el mero hecho de que en nuestra vida está actuando la voluntad de Dios y nosotros procuramos aceptarla y seguirla.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
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.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
work as if everything depended upon him and pray as if everything depended upon God.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
For just as surely as man begins to trust in his own abilities, so surely has he taken the first step on the road to ultimate failure. And the greatest grace God can give such a man is to send him a trial he cannot bear with his own powers—and then sustain him with his grace so he may endure to the end and be saved.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
En realidad, no es cuestión de confiar o no en Dios, porque de hecho deseamos confiar en Él: es cuestión de nuestra fe última en su existencia y en su providencia, y exige el acto de fe más puro.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
There would be a tomorrow, and we would have to live in it—and God would be there as well.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
Dios, que era todo en todo; no había más que una voluntad que lo gobernaba todo: la voluntad de Dios. Solo tenía que verla, descubrirla en cualquier circunstancia en la que me hallara, y dejarme guiar por ella.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
La verdadera libertad no significaba otra cosa que dejar obrar a Dios en el alma sin poner obstáculos; poner por delante la voluntad de Dios tal y como se me revelaba a través de sus indicaciones, de sus inspiraciones y de otros medios de que se vale para comunicarlos; y no obrar por propia iniciativa. El mayor sentimiento de seguridad, ha procedido de la renuncia a mi libertad para cumplir únicamente la voluntad de Dios.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
somehow I knew that I could do it. I knew that I must abandon myself entirely to the will of the Father and live from now on in this spirit of self-abandonment to God. And I did it. I can only describe the experience as a sense of "letting go," giving over totally my last effort or even any will to guide the reins of my own life. It is all too simply said, yet that one decision has affected every subsequent moment of my life. I have to call it a conversion.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
We had to learn to look at our daily lives, at everything that crossed our path each day, with the eyes of God; learn to see his estimate of things, places, and above all people, recognize that he had a goal and a purpose in bringing us into contact with these things and these people, and strive always to do that will—his will—every hour of every day in the situations in which he had placed us.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
Ultimately, we come to expect God to accept our understanding of what his will ought to be and to help us fulfill that, instead of learning to see and accept his will in the real situations in which he places us daily.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
We are not saved by doing our own will, but the will of the Father; we do that not by interpreting it or reducing it to mean what we would like it to mean, but by accepting it in its fullness, as made manifest to us by the situations and circumstances and persons his providence sends us. It is so simple and yet so difficult.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
Creí comprender lo que sintió san Pedro cuando sobrevivió a sus negaciones y recuperó su amistad con Cristo. Porque es verdad que, cuando el hombre empieza a confiar en sus propias capacidades, acaba de dar el primer paso en el camino hacia el fracaso final. Y la mayor gracia que Dios puede concederle es enviarle una prueba que no sea capaz de soportar con sus propias fuerzas… y sostenerlo con su gracia para que pueda perseverar hasta el final y salvarse.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
No matter how badly the humble man fails, he will reckon his accounts with God and start over again, for his humility tells him of his total dependence on God.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
For each of us, salvation means no more and no less than taking up daily the same cross of Christ, accepting each day what it brings as the will of God, offering back to God each morning all the joys, works, and sufferings of that day.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
is not really a question of trust in God at all, for we want very much to trust him; it is really a question of our ultimate belief in his existence and his providence, and it demands the purest act of faith.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
We tend to concentrate on ourselves, we tend to think of what we can or cannot do, and we forget about God and his will and his providence.
~ Walter J. Ciszek Sj
They said to hide," Sarah says. "They'll pick up the computer hearts when things cool down in this part of the world." "No way for us to get home?" "None where we won't get assassinated the second we show up in the Free Zone. No one knows who to trust." "Whom," says Cowboy.
~ Walter Jon Williams
Sometimes I feel as if I'm marrying into a pack of tigers," PJ said. "I'm going to have to watch myself night and day." Sempronia patted his arm. "Retain that thought, my dear," she said, "and we'll get along fine.
~ Walter Jon Williams
When all else fails fall back on the truth. No I'm a politician I can't tell the truth Mara Cal Omas
~ Walter Jon Williams
Steward felt closest to Reese. However cautious they were, however little they knew each other, there was a friendship there, a mutual respect. Steward was careful not to presume on it, to tread on Reese's privacy. That, he concluded, was what friends did. *
~ Walter Jon Williams
If only the heart's advice were infallible.
~ Walter Jon Williams