Quotes About Trust

But answering requests is not the primary role of God, and many people who believe it is will become disappointed and perhaps even alienated from God.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Most people believe if God performed a miracle—just one miracle—for them, they would surely and permanently believe in God. But, as explained in the commentary to Exodus 16:2, human nature doesn't work that way. The power of witnessing a miracle wears off quickly, and most individuals soon need (or merely want) another miracle. Over time, most people's attitude toward those who have done something good for them is: "What have you done for me lately?

The bad may have money, power, and fame, but they do not have friends (though they may well have sycophants).

While shared values aren't sufficient for friendship, friendship is impossible without shared values. In fact, one reason people are hurt by those they had considered friends is that friends are too often chosen without attention to their values.

I have a simple rule that is of great value in identifying whom to trust: Do not choose friends on the basis of personality, 'chemistry,' or enjoyment alone. Know their character (i.e. their values and whether they act on those values) before you trust them.

A faith based on miracles will quickly fade, dependent on the next miracle. Such an attitude cannot even be called faith.

We cannot, Lord, Thy purpose see But all is well that's done by Thee.

It is your commitment to God—to know Him, to grow in your relationship with Him, to obey Him and follow His leading in your life—that will enable you to see your spouse as His perfect complement to your life.

It occurred to me that falling in love was like jumping off a cliff. You know it's gonna hurt like hell, but you do it anyway, hoping you'll sprout wings and fly. I was still waiting to see if I would plunge to an agonizing death or grow wings and soar.

Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.

The Word says God put ever star in the heavens and even give ever one of em a name. If one of em was gon' fall out the sky, that was up to Him, too. Maybe we can't see where it's gon' wind up, but He can. That's when I knew that even though it didn't make no sense to me, God had put Miss Debbie in my life like a bright star, and God knew where she was gon' wind up. And I found out that sometimes we just have to accept the things we don't understand.

Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.. The truth is, that which must befall thee must befall thee. And that which must pass by thee must past thee by.

There's something I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.

At this point God taught me another important lesson: He would do for me what I could not do for myself, but He would not do for me what He required me to do for myself. God had responded to my cry and delivered me from the spirit of heaviness, but after that He held me responsible to exercise scriptural discipline over my own thoughts.

2 Chronicles 20:12 NIV) Here are the key phrases: "...we have no power...we do not know what to do..." So they had to turn to God for supernatural help and they knew the way to turn. They renounced the natural to invoke the supernatural.

The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant. Psalm 25:14, emphasis added

One way not to receive an answer to a petition is to go on praying for it. Some people pray themselves into faith and then pray themselves out of faith.

The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away." If we can trust God to give, then we must also trust Him when He takes away.

Jehová es bueno, fortaleza en el día de la angustia; y conoce a los que en él confían. (Nahúm 1:7) Bienaventurado el hombre a quien tú, JAH, corriges, Y en tu ley lo instruyes, Para hacerle descansar en los días de aflicción, En tanto que para el impío se cava el hoyo. (Salmos 94:12-13) No temas, porque yo estoy contigo; no desmayes

In Psalm 37:5, David said, "Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He will do it." More literally, the verse says, "And He is doing it." Two things are here required of us. The first is an act: "commit." The second is an attitude: "trust." The act of commitment leads to the attitude of trust. David assured us that, as long as we continue in this attitude of trust, God "is doing it.

In other words, God is working out what we have committed to Him. It is the continuing attitude of trust on our part that keeps the channel open through which God is able to intervene in our lives and work out what needs to be done. But if we abandon our trust, we close off the channel and hinder the completion of what God has begun to do for us.

If you have a bitter pool, bear in mind that out of the bitter pool God is going to reveal Himself to you if you will let Him speak to your heart.

So, when you come to your Marah, your bitter waters, and you begin to grumble, realise that there is something in you that must be dealt with and that God brought you to that place so He might deal with that thing, but He can only deal with it if you co-operate.