Quotes About Trust

I was like some daft child who burns himself once and after that is willing to shiver in the darkness rather than make a fire.

O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places". "Well", he answered "the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use.

In all the world I have no one but you. Help me to follow you, even though it seems impossible. Help me to trust you as much as I long to love you.

Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.

Whenever you are willing to obey me, Much-Afraid, and to follow the path of my choice, you will always be able to hear and recognize my voice, and when you hear it you must always obey. Remember also that it is always safe to obey my voice, even if it seems to call you to paths which look impossible or even crazy.

The awful glimpse down into the abyss of an existence without him had so staggered and appalled her heart that she felt she could never be quite the same again. However, it had opened her eyes to the fact that right down in the depths of her own heart she really had but one passionate desire, not for the things which the Shepherd had promised, but for himself. All she wanted was to be allowed to follow him forever.

Then as she looked up in his face, he smiled most sweetly and said something he had never said before, "You have one real beauty, Much-Afraid, you have such trustful eyes. Trust is one of the much beautiful things in the world. When I look at the trust in your eyes I find you more beautiful to look upon than many a lovely queen.

You've got to have faith to make the journey. For some, it might take 40 days; for others, 40 years. And, unfortunately, there will be many that will never see their promise become a reality at all - not because God can't do it - because they don't have the faith to believe that he really can

A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray.

Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.

Our lives are full of supposes. Suppose this should happen, or suppose that should happen; what could we do; how could we bear it? But, if we are living in the dwelling place of God, all these supposes vanish and we shall be free from fear.

The man who wavers in his faith is upset by the smallest trifles; the man who is steadfast in his faith can look on calmly at the ruin of all his universe.

"One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men."

I don't want any funny business, and above all I don't want to be dragged into other people's funny business. If it's to be my head on the block, I want to know that it's doing there, and not that it's some stupid things that other people have done.

The air was thick with betrayal. No one could trust anyone else, and in that dismal atmosphere the men seemed to grow even duller, devolving into mechanical extensions of the machines they serviced.

Weil die an den Himmel glauben, wollen sie auf der Erde nichts ändern.

In other words, the Quangels were like most people: they believed what they hoped.

Hans Selye, the pioneer in the understanding of human stress, was often asked the following question: "What is the most stressful condition a person can face?" His unexpected response: "Not having something to BELIEVE in.

CredinÈ›a este lumina lui Dumnezeu care lumineaz? în?untrul omului.

Faith's table is always laid, whether the invited guest sits down or stays away with a thousand excuses and pretexts.

You say that your faith is limited and fragile. But which faith is not limited and fragile?

better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.