Quotes About Trust

Sometimes you get a good eyeful of a man-sized action figure—and he knows what you are, and what you can do … and you know what he is, and what he's done before, or what he's helping other people do. And you just can't stand it because for all his bluster and bullshit he's weak and horrible, and cowardly, and if he caught you, he'd do terrible things to you—the kinds of things that were done to Ian and Isabelle.

I like to pretend that I'm covering my tracks, bracing for any contingency. Ready for the worst, and all that jazz. I always feel better if there's a plan in place. And in this case, the plan was, "Leave the blind guy in charge of the juvenile delinquents and everything will be just fine. Probably.

I don't like raccoons. They look … shifty, with their little burglar masks and everything. Also, they carry rabies. Can I catch rabies? Probably not. All the same, it sounds gruesome—and I think we all know that cute, fuzzy woodland creatures are not to be trusted on general principle.

No matter how bad your day, how terrible your choices, how ridiculous your risks, a dog would never tell you how stupid you were.

Raylene- Actually... I have an idea. Adrian- Oh no. R- No, it's a *good* idea. A- I don't believe you.

our host showed us back through the beaded curtain. "I trust you can find your way out?" he said, holding the fringe so it didn't drop back and tickle us, or tangle up in our hair, or whatever it is that sinister beaded curtains do to inconvenience the unwitting masses.

When we marry, I should like for you to wear that yellow dress. But only for me. I shouldn't like any other man gawking at your . . . well, surely you know of what jiggly bits I refer to." "Only you," she murmured.

I don't trust anybody in my life except my mother and my dogs.

You're half-dead, yet you have the vigor to philander? I was stabbed, not castrated.

The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our very foundation.

When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and their relationships with others by undermining the trust they have in their ability to succeed and in their ability to be true.

He knows the day, the hour, the minute that something in particular needs to happen in our lives. He may not be early, but He's never late.

Seriously, God! Did You have to choose me as the poster child for the single-and-waiting-on-God girl?

why do I struggle with believing God will deliver on the promise of a husband and a family?

If you choose to surrender your pen to God, you will probably face the odd looks and stares from your friends or family members who won't understand your choices. They may think you're not doing enough to "make this happen" on your own.

I have to face that my singleness right now is God's choice,

I've prayed countless prayers to God saying, "Please take this desire away." But He hasn't! I even asked, "Just take the desire away until you're ready to give it to me. Hold it in a box. Duct tape it closed for later because I don't want to desire anything that you don't have for me right now! It hurts too much.

make sure the compromises you make are ones God is truly asking you to make and that it's not just your impatience kicking in. Especially be wary as your age creeps up. You may be tempted to say "yes" to the wrong person because you don't want to wait any longer.

8. Surrender means trusting Him.

Perhaps opening his heart to the Lord could be the first step in opening his life to a chance at happiness again.

is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man,'" she read. "'It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.' We do what we can do, but we're only human. Place your trust in God now, and look to Him.

It's you," she murmured, staring at his eyes, a fine, dove gray. He smiled. "Of course, it's me. Let's get you back to your boat.

Fear of being alone is not a good reason to stay. Leaving this man you've been with for six years won't be easy, but you'll be okay and so will he. The end of your relationship with him will likely also mark the end of an era of your life. In moving into this next era there are going to be things you lose and things you gain. Trust yourself. It's Sugar's golden rule. Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

What if you allowed your God to exist in he simple words of compassion others offer you? ... What if the greatest beauty of the day is the shaft of sunlight through our window? What if the worst thing happened and you rose anyway? What if you trusted in the human scale? What if you listened harder to the story of the man on the cross who found a way to endure his suffering more than to the one about the impossible magic of the Messiah? Would you see the miracle in that?