Quotes About Trust

Loving Father, Here I am. I trust that you have an incredible plan for me. Transform me. Transform my life. Everything is on the table. Take what you want to take and give what you want to give. Transform me into the person you created me to be, so I can live the life you envision for me. I hold nothing back; I am 100 percent available. How can I help? Amen.

In helping them live their dreams, we come personally invested in them - one of the fundamentals of teamwork.

Too often we spend too much time asking or wondering why it didn't work out. Why do friendships end? Why do people break up? These are great questions, but surely the more important question is, What keeps people together? And not just together, but together in dynamic relationships. For the primary goal of relationships is not simply to stay together. Many people succeed in staying together but have failed relationships: their relationships are surviving but not thriving.

God wants us to be people of possibility, and people of

Intimacy is a risk. It should not be taken lightly, but we must take it. No man or woman can live a full life without being known by at least one person. Intimacy is a prerequisite for all those who wish to live the abundant life. The only true reason to delay the adventurous and risky pursuit of real intimacy is the absence of a confidant freely chosen and worthy of our trust.

When you know you are doing the will of God, that alone is enough to sustain your happiness. When you don't have that, all the possessions in the world cannot sustain happiness in the depths of your heart.

We need friends who help to make us whole, not friends who add to our dividedness.

Granted that it is best to seek the meaning intended by the author, we should not forget that Scripture is about love. We must approach Scripture in faith, hope, and love, and not place our trust in our own interpretations, which can lead us astray. Not erudition, but faith, hope, and love lead us to our goal of the vision of God. Many will attain this goal without studying even the books of Scripture.

Muchos nunca claman a Dios, hasta que están al final de su sabiduría; nunca acuden a Dios en busca de ayuda, siempre y cuando puedan ayudarse a sí mismos.

Él solo conocerá correctamente a Dios, si sabe cómo obedecerlo, y le obedece de acuerdo con su conocimiento de Él:

I didn't want to open up to the kind of pastor who believed that, while I told him my story, God was secretly and inerrantly revealing the rest of my story to him. I've had pastors make assumptions about me before. I'd tell them a story or two, and they filled in the blanks with their own theories and conclusions about the condition of my soul.

I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.

Sepa que cuando soy amigo de un hombre lo soy para siempre, y es muy difícil hacerme volver atrás. Y aunque un hombre pueda gozar siendo mi enemigo, no puede convertirme a mí en el suyo mientras yo no quiera. Buenas tardes.

Be to her virtues very kind;Be to her faults a little blind;Let all her ways be unconfin'd;And clap your padlock—on her mind!

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

Christ does not intend just to hear our pious prayers and worship; but He intends to intervene in our schooling, our fights with others, our problems with the government, our problems at work, and everything else. He is the great architect and builder of our lives—in the little things just as much as in the big.

And when they are told, 'Believe as other people have believed,' they say, 'Are we to believe just as fools believe?' Surely they are the fools, even though they do not realize it. 14 When they meet those who believe, they say, 'We believe.' But when they are alone with their evil leaders, they say, 'We are really with you; we were only mocking.' 15

and believe in Me, so that they may be rightly

Growing up is like taking down the walls of your house and letting strangers in.

Somehow, by holding hands you can carry on a conversation without talking.

We have two candidates with the highest unfavorables ever recorded and a majority of voters who feel stuck voting against, rather than for, someone. Both parties nominated the only person who could possibly lose to the other. Voters are agonizing about whether they can trust either candidate.

it is an achievement, too: to be wholly understood by one person. [Édouard Manet]