Quotes About Trust

even realize I was writing a play. I just used different characters' names so that if someone found my pages, they wouldn't know I was writing about myself. But eventually I let a close and trusted friend read what I'd written, and he said, "Man, this is a really good play.

Think about yourself as a baby eagle leaving a comfortable nest. If things start becoming difficult while you're taking flight, don't be afraid. Spread your wings and fly. God's got you.

You might find, as I did, that the people you love the most

to my faith, worked toward my dream, and then surrendered.

Mamma's words settle deep in my heart: God's got it in its banks. He's in control.

But I couldn't get the preacher's words out of my head: "If you pray, God will see you through it. He'll answer your prayers.

Sometimes in life, son, when you pray and you've said and done all you can,

then all you have to do is stand and wait, and listen. Just stand.

That [expletive] is lying to you!" he warned my mother. "He's a nickel slick and a dollar short." But my mother was insistent. She wore her father down until, finally, he gave his consent.

You take a good look at my daughter. Check her out from head to toe. She don't have a scar on her nowhere. If ever you don't want her, you bring her back to me the same way you found her.

Emmitt spat back, "Girl, I wasn't doing nothing but lying to you. I ain't got no damn ranch. That ain't even my car. I just test-drive them on the weekends." He laughed ruefully. "I'm sitting here trying to find someone who'll give us a place to stay.

One night I told my mother something that I had kept a secret. I had seen Emmitt touching one of my sister's young girlfriends inappropriately. When I told my mother, the look of panic and shock in her eyes made me feel like I might have shattered her soul. My own heart split open.

Men think wiles charming unless they find out your charms are wiles.

Hold on too tightly and the kids rebel; hold on too loosely and all things go to hell.

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

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All these people who have understood, and who want to be close, perhaps they are the most important people. The ones who dare to come close, and share both pain and pleasure.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

Promises are prisons, after all, and the breaking of a promise can poison.

Tell a lie often enough, someone will believe it." "It's worse than that, Kirsten. Tell a lie often enough, and it stands a good chance of becoming the truth.

One who is false to her first oath will be false to her second.