Quotes About Trust

Whenever a child is taking a risk, one must never make light of it.

It would be pointless to deny that some crime in Australia is linked to migrant communities. A factor here is that many migrants come from countries where the government trusts none of its citizens to tell the truth and demands proof for everything. The Australian system, where the authorities generally assume that a citizen is telling the truth, but provides penalties if they are then caught lying, tempts some migrants into illegal acts...

When people lost faith in their government, the result was revolution.

love you, too, Dan. And I'm not so much of a cop that you can't trust me with anything.

He expects people to be as forthright as he is," Rhonda said. "It's like he has this need for people to be exactly who they say they are. But his life has

You backed family. Right or wrong, if you are able to count on only one person to take your side, it should unquestionably be someone with whom you share blood.

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

If you hold a rose up before a man and he shuts his eyes tight and just holds out his hands and says "Here, I am ready to be persuaded; convince me by touch that your rose is red;" then you are helpless.

Each betrayal begins with trust

to me, a restaurant with no menu, headed by a chef I trusted, would be ideal. In such a utopia, guests could specify deathly allergies, hunger level, and time constraints, but then they would unfurl their napkin and surrender".

I would have followed Derek to the edge of the world, if he had wanted me to. And then perhaps we would have had to hold hands because it must be quite windy at the edge of the world.

The Lord is my shepherd and nothing is wanting to me. In green pastures He hath settled me.

The clinical distrust of mothers, simply because they are women, the eagerness to bend over backwards to like fathers, simply because they are men is mind-numbing.

One of the main reasons I've been able to stay this strange course is its ability to prove itself to me. When I reach out, there's something to grab hold of—to see, to touch, to feel. There's a reply to my questions.

The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.

One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just be .

how one lie leads to another and before you know it, your whole life can be a lie.

We should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence, Grandmother was that person to me.

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life," Thomas Merton, one of its sovereign explorers, pointed out, "is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.

All his novels are unreliable gospels for those who can't be sure of a thing.

whether we are aware of it or not, every act of trust carries with it a shiver of fear.

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.