Quotes About Trust

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

Well, that is what you risk when you fall in love. You risk losing your dignity.

If ever the day comes when he wakes beside me and my name doesn't come to his lips, when that bewildered look in his eyes doesn't fade away, I'll remember for us both. I won't let him forget the life we built together. I won't let him go.

While forgiveness is an important part of the gospel, the good news goes beyond that. It amounts to the claim that the kingdom of God—the direct availability of God himself and His rule—is now available to anyone who will enter it through trust in Jesus.

while few would actually put it in these terms, faith is now understood as a blind act of will, a decision to believe something that is either independent of reason or that is a simple choice to believe while ignoring the paltry lack of evidence for what is believed. By contrast with this modern misunderstanding, biblically, faith is a power or skill to act in accordance with the nature of the kingdom of God, a trust in what we have reason to believe is true.

Understood in this way, we see that faith is built on reason.

Satan uses any means, ethical or unethical, to distract us from trusting in God, drawing us away to trust in ourselves by moving us into fear, into anger, into pride.

Leaving his partners to die. Watching them run out of air...It was such a real possibility, Collins returning to earth by himself...now that's a stone-cold wheelman. That's the guy you want sitting at the wheel of a gassed-up Ford while you're inside a bank.

Sinatra told me that women were dangerous, even lethal. Sidney was just a beautiful woman, he said, and being betrayed by a beautiful woman was a rite of passage for any young man. He'd walked through the same fire. You'll live, he promised. The pain will put hair on your chest.

I will not worry about something that will not happen.

While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.

Z: "You know, this was a hell of a lot easier when you were out cold in the back of that truck." Phury: "That was you?" Z:"You think it was Santa Claus or some shit?

I liked you, cop. From the moment I met you. No… not the first moment. I wanted to kill you when I first met you. But then I liked you. A lot.

I will not fall in love with you," she said. "I can't let myself. I won't." "That's all right. I'll love you enough for the both of us.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Strider" I am to one fat man who lives within a day's march of foes that would freeze his heart, or lay his little town in ruin, if he were not guarded ceaselessly. Yet we would not have it otherwise. If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so.

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.

She'll be OK,' I say to the man behind me. 'You sure?' he asks, and I hear him take another step back. It's always easy to convince people it's OK because if it isn't, they'd have to get involved. 'Yeah.

Where all is fog, a blind man with a stick is not entirely at a disadvantage.

Of God bestaat en of Hij hoort Het smeken van mijn machteloos woord, Of Hij siddert bij mijn geween Weet God alleen.

As pessoas estão tão acostumadas a ouvir mentiras, que sinceridade demais choca e faz com que você pareça arrogante.

A great White Bear waits outside. He has faithfully promised to make us all rich if he can but have our youngest daughter.

Granted, physical attraction is what gets you in the door. But there has to be something beyond that to want to keep you there.

Sometimes your world falls apart. And it's okay for you to let people in and let them see you crumble