Quotes About Trust

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again. Know,

By 'praying always,' saith he, he exhorts us to pray in prosperity as well as adversity; and not then to intermit the practice of this duty because not driven to it by such outward pres sing necessities.

The Christian must trust in a with draw ing God, Isa. 50:10. Let him that walks in darkness, and sees no light, trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.

They use faith as an eye but not as a hand; they look for victory to drop from heaven upon their heads, but do not fight to obtain it.

Assurance rather is the fruit of faith. It is in faith as the flower is in the root.

Our faith must not depend on our reason, but our reason on faith.

he must needs be comfortable that hath so oft a pillow to lay his head on as Christ's lap.

Therefore, I beseech you, look to your armour. David would not fight in armour he had not tried, though it was a king's.

First, faith closeth with the promise as a true and faithful word, then hope lifts up the soul to wait for the performance of it.

As it is impossible to please God without faith, so it is impossible not to desire to please God with faith.

Had I not best look up to him, by whose blessing I live more than by my bread?

Compurgator, one that under oath vouches for the character or conduct of an accused person. From Webster's.—SDB

Unhappy man he, that hath no surer portion than what this variable world will afford him. The

Let God know from thy mouth whither thou art going, and what thy fears are. Never doth the soul march in so goodly order, as when it puts itself under the conduct of God.

Faith and a good conscience are hope's two wings.

When the spirit is low through unbelief, every threatening from man makes sad impression. Let thy faith take but a deep draught of the promises, and thy courage will rise.

God himself tells us we have 'need of patience;' he means great store of patience, 'that after we have done the will of God, we may receive the promise,' Heb. 10:36. And if of patience, then of hope; because patience bears all on hope's back. Now,

A friend should have no cabinet in his bosom to which he allows not his friend a key.

Here is godliness in triumph—when the Christian can carve contentment out of God's providence, whatever the dish is that is set before him.

Fides pinguescit operibus—'faith fattens or becomes strong on works,' Luther.

Look: if a bird were to rub its beak on a limb, you'd hear it—sure—and if a piece of water were to move an unaccustomed way, you'd feel it—that's right—and if a fox were to steal a hen, you'd see-you'd see it—even in the middle of the night; but, heaven help you, if a friend a friend—god—were to slit your throat with his—his love—hoh, you'd bleed a week to notice it.

Your clients are thin with the worms of worry, skinny from the scares inside them. Fatten them on certainty.

In further institutionalizing the great power of the majority, we are making the individual come to distrust himself. We are giving him a rationalization for the unconscious urging to find an authority that would resolve the burdens of free choice. We are tempting him to reinterpret the group pressures as a release, authority as freedom, and that this quest assumes a moral guise makes it only the more poignant.

We are right to trust descriptions of Jesus given by those most disrupted by Jesus.