Quotes About Trust

If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.

He who interprets doubtful matters for the best, may happen to be deceived more often than not; yet it is better to err frequently through thinking well of a wicked man, than to err less frequently through having an evil opinion of a good man, because in the latter case an injury is inflicted, but not in the former.

Friendship is the deepest part of love

Metternich told lies all the time, and never deceived any one; Talleyrand never told a lie and deceived the whole world.

O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?

We shall get on famously...and be capital friends forever.

Who is a wretch, or unhappy? He that holdeth not himself content with that that God hath sent him.

When you run into a story of more than three against one and one winning, then you have heard a lie.

We trust as we love, and we trust where we love; if you love Christ much surely you will trust Him much.

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

The more the soul is conformed to Christ, the more confident it will be of its interest in Christ.

If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.

These are O Lord the humble desires of my most reasonable ambition and all I dare call happinesse on earth: wherein I set no rule or limit to thy hand or providence. Dispose of me according to the wisdome of thy pleasure. Thy will bee done, though in my owne undoing.

You may make as many fair speeches as you choose, but you lie.

A critical, probing faith is a necessary and useful stage toward an assured and confirmed faith (Job 3:1–26; Clement of Alex., Stromata 8.9; Luther, Letters of Spiritual Counsel).

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ

My books are friends that never fail me." ( Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle ; 17 March 1817)

A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.