Quotes About Trust

St. Thomas connects servile fear with dead faith (loveless faith) and filial fear with living faith.

Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him" (Job 13:15).

All the way to Heaven is Heaven", said Saint Catherine of Siena. We

God's Spirit is most powerfully at work in us during emotional troughs, the "dry" times, not the "high" times. All the saints teach that. When the aid of feelings is removed, we can move forward only by heroic effort of our will. This

Your problem, however big it is (or however small), is His wise and loving will to you, even though it may not look wise or loving. It is His deliberate permissive will. And your response to it is your response to Him.

other little wooden fences can come down too. How? When? God only knows.

We must distinguish the act of faith from the object of faith, believing from what is believed.

Our faith here can only be in God, not in our faith (that's presumption). He will never abandon us, but we can abandon Him. That's why we must be vigilant.

Game theory says that the true source of uncertainty lies in the intentions of others.

He wrapped her around his hands and then yanked her inside out.

Winston Churchill once said, 'In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

If we're going to die either way, there's no difference. At some point you have to trust somebody.

They were actually going to keep all four of us together. Tinker, Tailor, Sailor, Traitor.

The head of the Massa," I said, "is my mom.

Trust is a fragile thing — difficult to build, easy to break. It cannot be bargained for. Only if it is freely given can it be expected in return.

To break the chain of mistrust, someone has to go first. I am happy to make the move.

In dieting and in stocks, it is the gut and not the head that determines the results.

A shared vision is the first step in allowing people who mistrusted each other to begin to work together. It creates a common identity.

The more willing you are for him to make a free choice, the freer he will feel. This can be especially difficult with subordinates, who are often conditioned to feel as though they must go along. But you can still help by creating the time and safety for them to develop their own sense of vision.

building an environment of reflectiveness starts with our own willingness to open ourselves, to be vulnerable, to be "exposed," as Saillant put it. This is unlikely to happen in any organizational environment that does not have a deep commitment to helping people grow, and to creating the trust and spirit of mutuality this requires.

Man wants the truth about Ed Watson," Daniels jeered. "Where you aim to find it? Smallwoods'll tell you their truth, Hardens'll tell you theirs. Fat-ass guard out there, he'll tell you his and I'll give you another. Which one you aim to settle for and make your peace with?

We told ourselves that we would assume that nothing would be done when we expected it to be done; the fact that it happened at all would be enough.

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

Some of what we learned early on turned out to be true (the earth is round; if you want a friend be a friend; cleanliness is next to impossible) and some of it turned out to be false (Santa Claus; the Tooth Fairy; Kansas is more fun than Oz).