Quotes About Trust

But he was in his fifties and there I always question how hard can they get. With a younger guy you know it's an easier thing. With an older one you don't know.

Every wife should have a husband like Norman, revere a husband like Norman instead of battering on his decency with her low-minded delights.

You want monogamy outside marriage and adultery inside marriage.

It was puzzling to own trees—they were not owned the way a business is owned or even a house is owned. If anything, they were held in trust. In trust. Yes, for all of posterity

Some things just have to be believed to be seen.

We feel pain as an outrage; Jesus did too, which is why he performed miracles of healing. In Gethsemane, he did not pray, "Thank you for this opportunity to suffer," but rather pled desperately for an escape. And yet he was willing to undergo suffering in service of a higher goal. In the end he left the hard questions ("if there be any other way . . .") to the will of the Father, and trusted that God could use even the outrage of his death for good.

I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no opportunity for faith either.

People on sinking ships do not complain of distractions during their prayer.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

The main purpose of prayer is not to make life easier, nor to gain magical powers, but to know God.

The only hope for any of us, regardless of our particular sins, lies in a ruthless trust in a God who inexplicably loves sinners, including those who sin differently than we do.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.

But the Lord say he won't put more on us than we can stand. If we can't take it, he'll be right there beside us giving stren'th we didn't know we had.

I can worry myself into a state of spiritual ennui over questions like What good does it do to pray if God already knows everything? Jesus silences such questions: he prayed, so should we.

Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, "Well isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.

We truly live only one day at a time. It doesn't really help to worry about the future, which we can't control, or the past, which we can't change.

Somehow, that "faith" was what God valued, and it soon became clear that faith was the best way for humans to express a love for God.

Faith, I've concluded, means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

La fe consiste en creer por anticipado algo que solo tendrá sentido cuando se mire hacia el pasado.

Nosotros, sin Dios, no podemos. Dios, sin nosotros, no quiere», decía San Agustín.

History is a test of faith, and the correct response to that test is persistent prayer.

Think of all the squabbles Adam and Eve must have had in the course of their nine hundred years," wrote Martin Luther. "Eve would say, 'You ate the apple,' and Adam would retort, 'You gave it to me.