Quotes About Trust

God is the One who is with us when we have to do something we don't think we are capable of doing.

I am not sure prayer puts us in touch with God the way many people think it does--that we approach God as a supplicant, a beggar asking for favors, or as a customer presenting Him with a shopping list and asking what it will cost. Prayer is not primarily a matter of asking God to change things. If we come to understand what prayer can and should be, and rid ourselves of some unrealistic expectations, we will be better able to call on prayer, and on God, when we need them most.

Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.

God does not send the problem; genetics, chance, and bad luck do that. And God cannot make the problem go away, no matter how many prayers and good deeds we offer. What God does is promise us, I will be with you; you will feel burdened but you will never feel abandoned. In

What God does is promise us, I will be with you; you will feel burdened but you will never feel abandoned.

cuando las cosas le vayan mal, no abandone su fe en Dios. Él tiene sus propias razones para lo que hace y, si usted se mantiene firme en su fe el tiempo preciso, le recompensará por sus sufrimientos.

God is a God I can believe in.

To believe in God is not to affirm His existence. To believe in God means to trust God, to rely on God to be there for you when you are afflicted by despair, to light your path when you are uncertain as to what to do.

The author of the Twenty-third Psalm makes a similar point. When all is going smoothly in his life, surrounded by green pastures and still waters, the psalmist talks about God, referring to God as He. But when he finds himself for the first time in the valley of the shadow of death and discovers that God has not abandoned him, only then does he say for the first time, "for Thou art with me.

believe in God is not to affirm His existence. To believe in God means to trust God, to rely on God to be there for you when you are afflicted by despair, to light your path when you are uncertain as to what to do.

If God is testing us, He must know by now that many of us fail the test. If He is only giving us burdens we can bear, I have seen Him miscalculate far too often.

We tend to think that for religion to work, for our prayers to be answered, we should get what we ask for. That is to say, we have confused God with Santa Claus. We think that prayer means giving God the list of things we want and assuring Him that we have been good girls and boys and deserve to get them, and if we haven't been good, the rules we broke were silly rules anyway.

We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.

I've buried all the hatchets. But I know where I've buried them and I can dig them up again if necessary.

It's not time to worry yet

We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.

It's not time to worry yet

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.

But it is often those who have least of all in this life whom He chooseth for the kingdom. Put thy trust in Him and no matter what befalls thee here, He will make all right hereafter.

there are some feelings so agitated and tumultuous, that they can find rest only by being poured into the bosom of Almighty love,—

the country is almost ruined with pious white people: such pious politicians as we have just before elections, such pious goings on in all departments of church and state, that a fellow does not know who'll cheat him next.

Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can't. It's always safest, all round, to do as He bids us.

God only knows the future,' said St.Clare. 'I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.