Quotes About Trust

Every prayer gets answered. Sometimes the answer is "no," but sometimes the answer is "not yet.

You've let the past come between you and God. Turn the past over to Him. He is strong enough to take it. Give Him your future, too. And He'll make you strong enough to face it.

You don't need proof. You need faith.

We mess up sometimes. You haven't exactly thrown Him for a loop, you know. He can handle it.

If God is willing to forgive you, who are you not to forgive yourself? You think you know better than God?

Things happen in God's time, not yours.

Without faith, a man's hope is in nothing but himself. And sooner or later, he will let himself down. But God will never let us down.

Lots of people believe in God. But trusting Him . . . that is the next step.

Worrying meant you were trying to control something you had no business trying to control

Children needed space more than overprotection. Parents who hovered were meeting their own needs, not their children's.

I depended on you....You're older, you're supposed to be my...my archive. That's what sisters do, remember for each other.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. —MARGARET MEAD

you must set her free. If you try to control her, she will hate you for it and you will lose her.

must honor her, trust her and listen to her. Most of all, he must be willing to let her go.

side. The woman gently patted his neck, sat down on his side and then stretched out. She folded her arms and closed her eyes. The horse closed his eyes as well and they both looked

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.

What we eventually run up against are the forces of humourlessness, and let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence. An awful lot of modern writing seems to me to be a depressed use of language. Once, I called it "vow-of-poverty prose." No, give me the king in his countinghouse. Give me Updike.

Never trust a poet who can drive. Never trust a poet at the wheel. If he can drive, distrust the poems.

Often what we may consider to be sins against ourselves are actually sins against God. For instance, when we condemn ourselves we are playing god. When we worry and fret we are not trusting Him - and that is sinning against God, not against ourselves. Therefore, those are sins against God for Him to forgive.

Anything is possible where faith is concerned.

Whoever it was that first realized that a woman wronged is a dangerous animal, and I suspect he was a Neolithic half-ape, was immeasurably correct.

Trust, trust in the world, because this human being exists - that is the most inward achievement of the relation in education. Because this human being exists, meaninglessness, however hard pressed you are by it, cannot be the real truth. Because this human being exists, in the darkness the light lies hidden, in fear salvation, and in the callousness of one's fellow-men the great Love.