Quotes About Trust

You think you know someone your whole life, and he turns out to be a German-gypsy interdimensional dark elf spy who can cloud men's minds. Go figure.

Fear is a man's best friend.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.

God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask of him.

Christ, on the other hand, declares that every single one of God's creatures is under his hand and care, and that nothing happens by chance. In

For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when it takes root in the depth of the heart . . . the heart's distrust is greater than the mind's blindness. It is harder for the heart to be furnished with assurance [of God's love] than for the mind to be endowed with thought.

Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

Thus it is that we may patiently pass through this life with its misery, hunger, cold, contempt, reproaches, and other troubles - content with this one thing: that our King [Jesus] will never leave us destitute, but will provide for our needs until, our warfare ended, we are called to triumph.

we shall find that the reason why   we doubt of God's promises is, because we sinfully detract from his   power.

not that they may believe against their wills (which would be impossible), but that they may be made willing to believe who were before unwilling to believe.

whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and   delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary,   regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at   the proper time.

Children, who are dealt with more generously and more liberally by their fathers, do not hesitate to show them unfinished projects that they have only begun, or even spoiled a little. Even if they have not succeeded in doing quite what they wanted, they are confident that their obedience and readiness of mind will be accepted. Such children we ought to be, trusting confidently that our most lenient Father will approve of them, however small, rough, or imperfect they may be.

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

Believers are also trained in obedience by means of the cross. For thus they are taught to live according to God's will rather than their own. If everything went according to their own plans, they would never know what it means to follow God.

This being admitted, it is certain that not a drop of rain falls without the express command of God.

our faith in doctrine is not established until we have a perfect conviction that God is its author.

All other comforts are temporary and illusory unless we depend wholly upon Christ. Therefore

Faithful is the Lord, who has made himself our debtor, not by receiving any thing from us, but by promising us all things," (August. in Ps. 32, 109, et alibi).

And so long as we give ourselves to faith in him, with calm and quiet minds, he will not permit the wicked to injure us with impunity.

He who lives by faith does not have life in himself; he flees to God because he does not possess it. The

men are justified by believing, not by what they do. It is by faith they obtain grace: and grace cannot be earned as a payment for works. Since

We are superstitiously timid, I say, if whenever creatures threaten us or forcibly terrorize us we become as fearful as if they had some intrinsic power to harm us, cor might wound us inadvertently and accidentally, or there were not enough help in God against their harmful acts.

unless they place their entire happiness in him, they will never yield up their whole selves to him in truth and sincerity.