Quotes About Trust

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.

I insist, that if there is ANY THING which it is the duty of the WHOLE PEOPLE to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.

Trust is built with consistency.

We have, what, 66,000-odd guests here today? And not one of them retains even an infant's sense of self-preservation. They checked their fight-or-flight instincts at the door. That's what they're paying for. They see a fire, hear an explosion, feel their roller coaster begin to shear off its track—what are they gonna do? Laugh all the harder. Because they think it's part of the act. That makes every last one of them a sitting duck.

Once an excuse has been deployed, brutal honesty is no longer an option.

One must meet in the middle of the village green for all to attest to one's lack of guile or conceal it absolutely.

We are only blessed with what God gives us.

That's the thing about loving someone. You no longer own your heart, and that small, beating organ can turn on you without warning and shred you from the inside out.

If we are to find contentment in the midst of trial and uncertainty, we must accept our situation as being purposely allowed into our lives by a personal and loving God.

Lord, I give You permission to search my heart and mind. Please show me every day what it feels like to be my husband.

At all times, in all circumstances, Christ is able and willing to provide the strength we need to be content. Contentment occurs when Christ's strength is infused into my weak body, soul, and spirit.

We survive the packages of pain God allows in our lives by remembering who God is and what He has done in the past.

When What Ifs come into our lives, we must ask ourselves if we're going to judge God by the circumstances we don't understand or judge the circumstances in light of the character of God.

Faith raises us above our circumstances. Faith enables us to be content even when life doesn't make sense. Faith is the bulwark that keeps us strong even when we're assailed by agonizing thoughts about what might happen or by what has happened.

Faith is not something to be reasoned from afar, but something we throw ourselves into — heart, mind, and soul.

It's one thing to believe God can do something. It's quite another to put yourself in a position of reliant trust. This is the distinction between intellectual belief and wholehearted faith.

God does not demand that you and I have blind faith, but abandoned faith, a faith that trusts Him fully.

Confidence in God's character enables us to throw ourselves with complete abandon into His care.

It's our "helping God out" that leads to an anxious heart. When we take over and try to control what happens, we take our focus off the One who is in control and put our eyes on our circumstances.

Contentment comes from a proper relationship to God, not from a response to the circumstances. Our

Could it be there are storms in our lives where our perspective may not match God's? Even when it's impossible to see our circumstances from God's point of view, we can still trust him with anything and everything. And because we trust him, we can praise him no matter what. So, praise him even in your darkest hour, because someday, whether on this side of heaven or the other, we will see what God was doing all along. So why wait? Use your faith and

We share our secrets when we're ready and not a minute before.

A lament is an act of worship, a faith statement of trust, in the face of difficulty. It's a wonderfully honest way to acknowledge our trouble to God as we also acknowledge our hope is in him.