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Quotes About Trust

Clayton reported Brigham Young saying that "the man must love his God and the woman must love her husband," adding that "woman will never get back, unless she follows the man back.
~ William Clayton
June 22, 1844. Saturday.] Joseph whispered and told me either to put the records of the Kingdom into the hands o some faithful man and send them away, or burn them, or bury them. I concluded to bury them, which I did immediately on my return home.
~ William Clayton
A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.
~ William Congreve
Thou liar of the first magnitude.
~ William Congreve
I warrant you, if he danced till doomsday, he thought I was to pay the piper.
~ William Congreve
He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
~ William Congreve
Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
~ William Cowper
Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.
~ William Cowper
Behind a frowning providenceHe hides a smiling face.
~ William Cowper
He has no hope who never had a fear.
~ William Cowper
The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
~ William Cowper
God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
~ William Cowper
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm.
~ William Cowper
Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break In blessings on your head.
~ William Cowper
Be trusted with the Lord. Wait for His seasonable aid, And though it tarry, wait: The promise may be long delay'd, But cannot come too late.
~ William Cowper
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust him for his grace, behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
~ William Cowper
Be thankful that God's answers are wiser than your answers.
~ William Culbertson
He who, from zone to zone,Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight,In the long way that I must tread alone,Will lead my steps aright.
~ William Cullen Bryant
So live, that when thy summons comes to joinThe innumerable caravan which movesTo that mysterious realm, where each shall takeHis chamber in the silent halls of death,Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothedBy an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,Like one that wraps the drapery of his couchAbout him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
~ William Cullen Bryant
So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,Scourged to his dungeon; but, sustain'd and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." Thanatopsis
~ William Cullen Bryant
The greatest help oft comes in harm's disguise, to those with trusting hearts and open eyes.
~ William D. Burt
But Khair did not need such proof of her husband's love for her. Over and over again, James had risked everything for her. Most reationshps in life can survive - or not - without being put to any real crucial, fundamental test. It was James's fate for his love to be tested not once, but four times...At each stage he could easily have washed his hands off his teenage lover. Each time he chose to remain true to her. That, not the words of any will, was the evidence she could cling to.
~ William Dalrymple
quoting a Persian proverb, "those once bitten by a snake fear even a twisted rope.
~ William Dalrymple
Siraj's most serious error was to alienate the great bankers of Bengal, the Jagat Seths. The Seths' machinations had brought Aliverdi to power, and anyone who wanted to operate in the region did well to cultivate their favour; but Siraj did the opposite to the two men of the family
~ William Dalrymple