Quotes About Trust

I believe that God never overpromises or underdelivers. He always delivers on His promises, but He does it on His timeline!

success is when those who know you best respect you most.

uno solo es tan bueno como la gente con la que se rodea.

I don't believe in coincidence. I believe in providence.

Maybe we need to quit letting our circumstances get between us and God and let God get between us and our circumstances

mientras más fe tengas, menos supuestos te fabricarás. ¿Por qué? Porque para Dios todo es posible52.

hundred pounds." Sometimes the power of prayer is the power to carry on. It doesn't always change your circumstances, but it gives you the strength to walk through them. When you pray through, the burden is taken off of your shoulders and put on the shoulders of Him who carried the cross to Calvary. After

Cuando hacemos lo correcto, sin importar las circunstancias o las consecuencias, estamos creando las condiciones para que Dios vuelque las mesas. Todo lo que necesitamos hacer es decidirnos y hacerlo.

Si buscas las respuestas, no las vas a hallar; pero si buscas a Dios, las respuestas te encontrarán a ti.

I don't pretend to understand where the sovereignty of God and free will of humans meet, but it motivates me to work like it depends on me and pray like it depends on God.

If God is for us, it doesn't matter what comes against us. Without Him, we can do nothing. With Him, we can do all things.

Has God ever called you to throw something down? Something in which you find your security or put your identity? It's awfully hard to let go, isn't it? It feels like you are jeopardizing your future. And it feels like you could lose what is most important to you. But that is when you discover who you really are.

Here's the point: God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities. But those God-given opportunities often come disguised as man-eating lions. And how we react when we encounter those lions will determine our destiny. We can cower in fear and run away from our greatest challenges. Or we can chase our God-ordained destiny by seizing the God-ordained opportunity.

Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.

He stood, looking out for a few seconds at the darkness that was Arlington Cemetery. He knew every man sleeping there, and in the hundreds of tended cemeteries and lost graves of American soldiers throughout the world. These men slept knowing before they died they could trust their leaders. He turned to face the Chairman.

Peace is at hand? Kissinger sounded like Neville Chamberlain returning from his talk with Hitler, saying, "Peace in our time." Did he mean peace at all costs, regardless of their ally's fate?

He couldn't comprehend the story of French civilians spitting on their wounded soldiers when they returned from the Indochina War. He thought Lartéguy must have made that up. Such a thing certainly could not happen in America.

He hoped and prayed that God had a special place for soldiers of any religion, of any country, of any age, who trusted so much their leaders and their cause.

Management by fear. It made professional liars out of good men.

There are those who build, those who teach or heal, those who research how to do things better. But I am a soldier. A soldier protects people. A soldier enforces laws. A soldier stands guard over what he believes in, sometimes alone when his only fuel is from his faith in himself. He trusts his judgment that his fellow soldier, his leader, his country and his country's cause is just and fair and deserving of his faith.

McNamara has broken the unofficial contract between civilian leaders and military officers that the military will obey the civilians without question in return for the civilian leadership not squandering military lives.

Sometimes the fate of an entire nation can hinge on the integrity of one man.

Prayer makes no sense apart from waiting.

For the place God calls us into isn't doubt free—how can any place where we walk by faith and not by sight be that? No, the holy wild is where we have driving and haunting doubts, God-hungry doubts that pull us to our knees, force us to the Word, make us wrestle all night and not let go until He blesses us. The holy wild throngs with true skeptics.