Quotes About Trust

He and Janet talked like this all the time. The Fillorians didn't really get it, they thought High King Eliot and Queen Janet hated each other, but the truth was that in Quentin's absence Janet had become his principal confidante. Eliot supposed it was partly because they both found real romantic intimacy elusive and kind of uninteresting, so usually neither of them had a serious boyfriend, and they had to turn to each other for intelligent companionship.

Sorry", Elliot said. "But you were kissing everybody else.

The Order seemed to adhere to the principle of suckers walk, players ride.

That was the truth. And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to deal with: her outward affect was bright and capable, and that was no illusion, but equally real was the yawning pit of exhaustion inside her. She just felt so tired sometimes. And because of everything her family asked of her, she was ashamed of being tired. She could not, would not let the pit swallow her up, as much as she sometimes wanted it to.

Afterward she took the tree aside and conferred with it privately.

sometimes God wants your son. sometimes He'll settle for a ram. PouncySilverkitten:

Quentin did not consider himself a great interpreter of signs and wonders, but the lesson of the golden key seemed pretty clear to him. It was this: you've already won the game, so quit playing. Remain where you are, in your castle, and you will be safe. No further action on your part is required.

Whatever was coming next would come.

What's wrong with lying?... A lie is a blow to the tyranny of fact.

I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.

As a Christian, I think it's really important to find a man of God to trust and be supportive of me.

You don't know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be loved.

Al Roker was the weather man in New York City, and three years ago we had a blizzard. We were supposed to have, according to Al, 4 to 12 inches of snow. That's his prediction. We had 36 inches. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, he was two feet off. THAT'S NOT EVEN IN THE BALLPARK! If you were a roofer and you built a roof and it was two feet off, you'd still be serving time.

Who believes in Aslan nowadays?

I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.

What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, "Peace, child; you don't understand."

Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own efforts.