Quotes About Trust

In a world where superficial relationships are the norm, real and authentic community is refreshing.

All Cretans are liars, as a Cretan poet once told me.

Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

I have received my all from God. Oh that I could return my all to God

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul. . .How blessed it is to grow more and more like God!

Nothing seemed to hard for God to perform; nothing to great for me to hope for from Him.

As sci-fi writer Theodore Sturgeon said, 90 percent of everything is crap. But science fiction has not been forgiven for its crap. The reason is that science fiction inherently distrusts the 'eternal verities' on which literature graduates base their doctoral dissertations. Literature departments were uncomfortable with that. But things change.

As it concerns Clinton coverage, the Times will have a special place in journalism hell.

Ultimately, organizations run through directive approaches fail. They might perform in the very short term, but they can never sustain it. Or they drive people away; they don't like working where they are treated like idiots.

Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.

It is possible to have a complex human relationship without words

as people become more dependent on God, their capacity for ambition and action increases. Dependency doesn't breed passivity; it breeds energy and accomplishment.

People tend to want to live up to their friends' high regard.

Consider the possibility that a creature of infinite love has made a promise to us. Consider the possibility that we are the ones committed to, the objects of an infinite commitment, and that the commitment is to redeem us and bring us home.

I never met an authority figure I didn't like.

without social trust, the political system devolves into a brutal shoving match

People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.

I wanted to find a reason not to be cynical—to have some faith even when nothing around me seemed to justify it.

The best surveillance is when everyone suspects that they're being watched all the time. The government then doesn't even have to watch the cameras—they need only let people believe someone might be watching.

The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying.