Quotes About Trust

Believing in him is not the same as believing things about him such as that he was born of a virgin and raised Lazarus from the dead. Instead, it is a matter of giving our hearts to him, of come hell or high water putting our money on him, the way a child believes in a mother or a father, the way a mother or a father believes in a child.

It's less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.

if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

Whether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.

It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself thatn I can imaine ever having found in any other kind of relationship.

You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.

Remember that the lives of other people are not your business. They are their business. They are God's business because they all have God whether they use the word God or not. Even your own life is not your business. It also is God's business. Leave it to God.

With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards.

Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting. Faith is journeying through space and through time.

Lying to God is like sawing the branch you're sitting on. The better you do it, the harder you fall.

Knowing that even though you see only through a glass darkly, even though lots of things happen - wars and peacemaking, hunger and homelessness - joy is knowing, even for a moment, that underneath everything are the everlasting arms.

We believe in God when for one reason or another we choose to do so. We believe God when somehow we run into God in a way that by and large leaves us no choice to do otherwise.

Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets. All these also did not receive what was promised but greeted it from afar, and then there are all those who did not much believe in the promise to begin with, and it is not always possible to tell the two apart.

The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

I had a wholesome dread of the consequences of running in debt.

Beware of a Yankee when he is feeding

Conscience is, to the individual soul, and to society, what the law of gravitation is to the universe. It holds society together; it is the basis of all trust and confidence; it is the pillar of all moral rectitude. Without it, suspicion would take the place of trust; vice would be more than a match for virtue; men would prey upon each other, like the wild beasts of the desert; and earth would become a hell.

It's perfectly logical,' said Dr Snyder. 'It's absolutely proved. You can't lie.' 'But I can,' said the Martian. 'Work on the logic of that a while, Mack.

I am not upset that you lied to me, I am upset that from now on I cannot believe you.

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