Quotes About Trust

Andrea ripped her paperback in half and gave Delilah the beginning while she finished the end.

Barrett crumpled the plastic from his sandwich. "I'd never hurt her intentionally." Right, Chess thought. But people rarely hurt each other intentionally.

But the world is filled with deceptions and betrayals--nearly every life has one--and yet the sun still rises and sets, the world continues on.

Mallory uses a measured, concerned-mom voice rather than a snake-oil-salesman voice.

So all she can hope for are unexpected moments of grace.

Hollis leaves Brooke's text to bleed out.

Elin Hilderbrand

She says, "I want to be treated like someone precious. I want to be someone's beloved. I never feel that way with you, and it dawned on me at some point today that I'm never going to feel that way with you, ever.

that's what unconditional love is all about. The 'no-matter-what's.

Secrets are lies! They're lies!

Rollan frowned. "Conor, is this what I sounded like that day Olvan asked us to become Greencloaks? If so, I give you permission to punch me. Once. In the shoulder.

I just think of him as my elk. And I'm his boy.

he tried to get to his feet and failed. "It's okay," Conor whispered, stroking Briggan's paw. "You're going to be okay.

From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.

It's always that way with periods of crisis: people you expect and want to be there for you are incapable and/or unwilling, and others you never imagined would be there for you show up with exactly what you need, exactly how you need it. And there is almost no way, alas, no way at all, to predict which people will be which.

It's always that way with periods of crisis: people you expect and want to be there for you are incapable and/or unwilling, and others you never imagined would be there for you show up with exactly what you need, exactly how you need it. And there is almost no way, alas, no way at all, to predict which people will be which. Got

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.

God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How many momentous events in Scripture depended on one person's seemingly small act of obedience! Rest assured: Do what God tells you to do now, and, depend upon it, you will be shown what to do next.

God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.

I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts. Its easy to talk oneself into a decision that has no permanence – easier sometimes than to wait patiently.

If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.