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Quotes About Trust

These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Whatever had made the Dean take such a fancy to him, a cowardly, selfish, obstinate, ugly old fellow like him? He would never understand it. He took the piece of paper out of his pocket and looked at that too. Faith in God. God. A word he had always refused. But the Dean had said, put the word love in its place.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
It's not your business to decide if a woman you love should, or should not, marry you. It's her business. Tell her all about yourself and leave the decision to her. God knows it's trouble enough having to make one's own decisions in life without having to make other people's too.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
The God who had thrust him through in the darkness with probings of dread and shame was the same God who now held out the sword and shield.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
and looking up into Abednego's face she fought a battle inside herself with the thing that it was, a sort of grabbing thing, and then she held Gertrude out to him. "You have her," she said.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Fear is a lonely thing. Even those who love us best cannot get close to us when we are afraid.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
There are three necessary prayers and they have three words each. They are these, 'Lord have mercy. Thee I adore. Into Thy hands.' Not difficult to remember. If in times of distress you hold to these you will do well.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Now she watched Nat as a small child watches a teacher from whom it must at all costs learn. He took to himself each day as it came with childlike trustfulness, and so did she. He never complained, and neither did she. He took every misfortune with a grin, and so did she. He took upon himself all the hardest and most unpleasant duties as a matter of mere routine, and she tried to do the same
~ Elizabeth Goudge
I will," that is my song. I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and you can't, and you hate yourself because you can't, and all the time love is not some marvelous thing that you feel but some hard thing that you do. And this in a way is easier because with God's help you can command your will when you can't command your feelings. With us, feelings seem to be important, but He doesn't appear to agree with us.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
How do you know I am capable of love?" she asked as they walked toward her car. "Steady affection perhaps." "If by steady you mean faithful, there you have it; the kernel of love. I imagine men long for God because of that unchanging faithfulness. The rock under the quicksands. The Psalms are full of it." When
~ Elizabeth Goudge
looking into his face I noticed that when he was neither eager nor alarmed his eyes had the most extraordinary quietness in them. "My dear," he said, "love, your God, is a trinity. There are three necessary prayers and they have three words each. They are these, 'Lord have mercy. Thee I adore. Into Thy hands.' Not difficult to remember. If in times of distress you hold to these you will do well.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
It was the first time in her life that she had put her faith in God's protection to the test, and it had not failed her.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
One is at rest with people who want one; they are like a warm house with the door wide open. And one trusts an open door, for trust begets trust, and if the people inside didn't trust you they wouldn't leave it open.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
She knew there could be no certainty, only faith. Could she find faith?
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Ask them about their sex lives or their drinking habits or the times they beat up on Granny and they may dodge around a little but eventually they'll tell you all about it - they're dying to tell. Get to the money question, though, and they start acting like you just tore off all their clothes in public. In some way, money is the cover we use for the most intimate parts of ourselves.
~ Elizabeth Gunn
The worst things were cowardly acts of betrayal. Betraying a friend and in the process betraying yourself. He knew all about that.
~ Elizabeth Hay
He would let himself in whenever he felt like it, come and go as he pleased. I remembered when this was such a big deal for me, not so long ago. I'd wanted my own space, my front door that I could lock behind me and know for sure that nobody was going to be inside there without me. I remembered telling him that I wanted that space back. I remembered asking him for the key, and him walking away from me. I remembered him simply walking away and leaving, without so much as an argument.
~ Elizabeth Haynes
I lay back down, fitting myself into the curve of his body, pulling his arms around me, protecting me, keeping me sage.
~ Elizabeth Haynes
You head back outside, leaving the door unlocked. Better get used to it, you tell yourself. One of the dogs barks as you walk across the yard towards the main house. It's an excellent warning, of course. You knock on the front door. 'You don't need to knock,' she says, opening the door. 'You can come straight in.
~ Elizabeth Haynes
MR LEWIS Mr Brightman, would you have
~ Elizabeth Haynes
Yes." She had moved in for a fortnight in the summer, when Chris and Taryn had gone to France on holiday, to water the plants, keep an eye on things. "Well, come round whenever you like. I'll make the spare bed up later. And, Flora, it will be all right, okay? Everything will work out.
~ Elizabeth Haynes
the way she said it that told him she was telling the truth.
~ Elizabeth Haynes
Your eyes told me to trust you, your heart's beat told me you were afraid of getting broken too, the only thing you didn't tell me was how to let go once you were gone...
~ Elizabeth Heller