Quotes About Trust

the more famous an expert was, the less accurate he was.

No man is a failure who has friends (Clarence).

They are afraid. They would, today, keep secret a thousand things that, yesterday, they would have told one another freely. Freedom. Where is it now? We are driving it into limbo—their kind. To limbo.

Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.

Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.

Obedience appears to me more and more the whole business of life, the only road to love and peace.

Fidelity in marriage requires self-will and self-denial.

Fourteenth-century men seemed to have regarded their doctor in rather the same way as the twentieth-century men are apt to regard their priest, with tolerance for someone who was doing his best and the respect due to a man of learning but also with a nagging and uncomfortable conviction that he was largely irrelevant to the real and urgent problems of their lives.

Close dancing may be the best inoculation against ideology.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity

He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.

When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.

I have given my word that only death will take me from you.

Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.

This is important: he sees me in a certain way, a way he will never deviate from. In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become.

Nothing touches me more than cracks in the armor and the person who reveals them.

And then, he asks me to take him. He says the words, without shame, without ordering me to either. I obey him, though I'm afraid. I know that it can hurt if the other person doesn't know how to do it, that the body can resist.

It is important to have friends. They are the meaning we give to life.

And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.)

On ne trahit pas les disparus. Ce sont eux qui nous trahissent. Parce qu'ils ont fait défaut, parce qu'ils sont partis, alors qu'on avait besoin d'eux, parce qu'ils ont filé sans préavis, parce qu'ils nous laissent avec le manque et aucune solution pour y remédier. Et quand ils ont lâché notre main, qui nous en voudrait d'en saisir une autre ?

Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.

The first step towards understanding God's guidance is to understand the guiding God. We need to explore his character and the way he achieves his plans before we can tackle the nitty-gritty issues we are all so interested in.

We all know the three Rs: reading, writing, and arithmetic. But I contend there is a fourth -- one that is vitally important. You need it to teach the other three. In fact, you need it to teach everything effectively. It touches on all teaching and learning. The fourth R is rapport.