Quotes About Trust

We know nothing about those we love, except our need of their presence

The things that we mortals see as setbacks are, in truth, simply God's way of redirecting our paths toward Him. And what sometimes seems to be a terrible setback (to us) can always be transformed into a great victory (for Him). After all, no problem is too big for God. Criswell Freeman (the man who helped me write this book)

graces. No matter what your future may be, now is not meant to be a time of waiting. Instead, God is teaching you something each step along the way, preparing you to take His hand and walk with Him, trusting that God will lead you to healing.

but consider this: when you bring shards of glass together and shine radiant light through them, you create stained glass. Likewise, God can bring beauty through our scars. He can turn us into living cathedrals. All we need to do is trust in His promise: "Behold, I make all things new" (Rev. 21:5).

Others seek commitment because they fear loneliness.

A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.

Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.

Instead of asking WHY you had to do it, how about just thanking Him for safely bringing you THROUGH it.

I'd learned not to put a question mark where God put a period.

You do the foot work, and leave the results up to God.

You're not always going to be able to see the big picture. But you've got to know that, no matter what, you'll be okay. Keep praying.

You've got to learn to trust Him, Cup. You're not always going to be able to see the big picture.

Leaders must embrace those they need the most versus holding them hostage.

Some nonproductive cultures are starving for a vision or central focus; others are wasting the energy of their people by regularly changing and manipulating the direction of their focus. Most contemporary companies are suffering from an assault on their basic expectations. Like the desk clerk, we have collectively learned not to trust and have developed a kind of shared helplessness.

Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.

The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

We must nurture our capacity for prayers of submission. If we remain stuck only in prayers of avoidance, we are vulnerable to believing that avoiding loss is the only acceptable outcome. When we ask for only one thing, we are essentially insisting that it is the only acceptable thing. This insistence leaves us highly vulnerable to a range of Satan's temptations. We are vulnerable to engaging in all sorts of problematic behavior.

And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument?

Reconciliation for the powerful and privileged means trusting those who have lived under oppression and even following their lead in becoming one new humanity.

If you are, simply request that the Divine change it for you.

Where there's surrender, synchronicity tends to follow, which is one of the most delightful side effects of a surrender practice.

Letting go is not in order to get something better (the point Paul misses in the second half of his Philippians hymn); in and of itself it is the something better. For it immediately restores the broken link with the dynamic ground of reality, which by its very nature flows forth from a fullness beyond imagining.