Quotes About Trust

Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.

God is great and God is good, but God is also elusive and unpredictable,

Sticks and stones can break our bones, but lies can break our hearts and our careers.

People tethered to God by faith can let themselves go because they know they will get themselves back.

Many grew introspective and talked of things men usually keep to themselves. Hundreds later recalled that they found themselves admitting their fears and talking of other personal matters with unusual candor. They drew closer to one another on this strange night and confided in men they had never even met before.

That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

A second red-orange spearhead leaps straight at O'Shaughnessy. The whole world seems to stand still. Then the gun behind it crashes, and there's a cataclysm of pain all over him, and a shock goes through him as if he ran head-on into a stone wall. A voice from the car says blurredly, while the ground rushes up to meet him, 'Finish him up, you guys! I'm getting so I don't trust their looks no more, no matter how stiff they act!' ("Jane Brown's Body")

It wasn't an attack. We'd been together too many times before, made love together too many times before, for it to be that. It was just that fear had suddenly entered, and made us dangerous strangers. ("New York Blues")

You haven't any right to expect your friends to be larger than yourself, larger than life. Just take them as they are, cut down to average size, and be glad you have them. To drink with, laugh with, borrow money from, lend money to, stay away from their special girls as you want them to stay away from yours, and above all, never break your word to, once it's been given. And that is all the obligation you have, all you have the right to expect. ("New York Blues")

All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid. ("New York Blues")

Men's loyalty to their women dies hard - and almost always too late. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

HE HAD SIGNED her own death-warrant. He kept telling himself over and over that he was not to blame, she had brought it on herself. He had never seen the man. He knew there was one. He had known for six weeks now. Little things had told him. One day he came home and there was a cigar-butt in an ashtray, still moist at one end, still warm at the other.

How do you go about finding out who the best-loved woman in a guy's life is? Ask him?

Love is like an eggshell, isn't it? It can never be put together again.

The Lord longs to hear all of our concerns — any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.

My father prayed because he had a good Friend with whom to share the problems of the day.

There is no pit so deep that God's love is not deeper still.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?