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Quotes About Trust

Yes, Lord. I want Your patience to invade my desire to fly off the handle." "Yes, Lord. I want Your perspective to keep my emotions in check." "Yes, Lord. I want Your provision so things don't seem so overwhelming." "Yes, Lord. I want Your courage to do what I feel You calling me to do." "Yes, Lord. I want and need more of You in every moment.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Relationships often die not because of conversations that were had but rather conversations that were needed but never had.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
We want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
If God is good and God is good to me, then I must fill in the gaps of all the unknowns of my life with a resounding statement of trust: God is good at being God.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
In God's plan, you've got a part to play. If you know it and believe it, you'll live it.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Maybe you've been entrusted with this. Not cursed with it.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Lord, give them enough hurts to keep them human and enough failures to keep their hands clenched tightly in Yours.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
I have to trust that first comes the dust, and then comes the making of something even better with us. God isn't ever going to forsake you, but He will go to great lengths to remake you. What if disappointment is really the exact appointment your soul needs to radically encounter God?
~ Lysa TerKeurst
I love the thought that God is in our midst and that He will quiet me by His love.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Giving with strings of secret expectations attached is the greatest invitation to heartbreak.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
It was about realizing the power of God taking over my complete weakness.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
I don't know all the details entangled in this issue. But You know all. Therefore, You, God, are the only One who can handle all. There are a lot of things my flesh is tempted to seek—fairness, my right to be right, proof of her wrongdoing, to make her see things from my vantage point—but at this point, the only thing healthy for me to seek is You. You alone. I'm going to be obedient to You and let You handle everything else.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Seek God like never before. Part of seeking Him is allowing for grace space in your life.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Remember that everything that happens to you is first filtered through God's hand. Interruptions can become opportunities. What you might see as distractions God might see as divine appointments. Things may happen that seem so haphazard and distracting to our agenda, but with a fresh dose of perspective, they can turn into precious moments.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
The…destructive…message is that the parents don't trust their children to do what they are supposed to do whether it be learning to fall asleep on their own, figuring out how to safely climb a tree, or remembering to do the homework assignment. This message is especially harmful. Children cannot believe in themselves if the most important people in their lives don't believe in them.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Resisting God's promises will make us forget God's presence.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
The biblical way to be preserved is to be pressed. And being pressed can certainly feel like being crushed.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Believing God has purposed our days will save us from the trouble of stepping into plans that aren't meant for us.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
We must tie our identities to our unchanging, unflinching, unyielding, undeniably good, and unquestionably loving God.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
God loves me too much to answer my prayers at any other time than the right time and in any other way than the right way.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Obedience is the daily practice of trusting God.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
He waits every day with every answer we need, every comfort we crave, every affection we're desperate for, while we look everywhere else but at Him.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
My life certainly didn't change overnight. I experienced a waiting period, a time of growth, development, and perseverance as God prepared me. Lessons on patience, trust, surrender, and learning to take hold all preceded my stepping out. But even in this seemingly unimportant time of pruning and trials, God was preparing me for the next step.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
And if we ground ourselves in the reality that we trust God, we can face circumstances that are out of our control without acting out of control. We can't always fix our circumstances, but we can fix our minds on God. We can do that.
~ Lysa TerKeurst