Quotes About Trust

Like Abraham Lincoln, I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

The fundamental concept here is that if antibiotics are a societal trust—if my use affects your ability to use them, and then your use affects my grandkids' ability to use them—why are we allowing people to choose? We recognize in society that individual autonomy extends only up to the point that you begin to affect others.

There's nothing more complicated – or fragile – than the relationship between parents and their children. It's like no other relationship there is. And no one tells you how to make it work. Either you find your way or you don't.

I asked her, 'Did you like Sadie?' Juliet put down the book she was reading. 'I liked her the way you like a hurt dog,' she said. 'What do you mean?' I asked her. 'You feel sorry for it, and you want to help it, but you're not sure it won't bite you when you're not looking,' Juliet said.

People always say they want to hear the truth, but they really don't

But he'd never been in love. He knew that was what he was really asking himself. He'd never given himself to someone else completely. He'd always held something back, even if he hadn't known that he was doing it. He'd reserved the deepest part of him, the part that truly was him, because he'd feared that once he gave it away he would never get it back.

I feel like I'm always trying to keep control of my life. Sometimes I'd like to be able to just let go and fall.

like she'd murdered her best friend or slept with her dad's new wife.

Jack was there. He was on his back, the leg with its cast stuck out at an angle. Sitting astride him, Brian was moving up and down, his hand wrapped around his own cock while Jack's filled him from underneath

Faith, he had learned that night in front of the flickering television, was most glorious when it was most untouched by reason.

How do you really know if anyone loves you?

A Beloved Son is one who experiences the unconditional love of his Father in a way that deeply impacts him and leaves him with: Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Prove, Nothing to Fear.

The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me.

Lisa, who told Griffin, that when Greg returned calls he sometimes ran the hair dryer near the phone and said he was on a private jet. Griffin kept this to himself because some people are so creepy that even to know this about them is a sign of dangerous proximity to contamination.

Pick your associates well, back them fully, empower them with both accountability and responsibility, and they will produce far more than you ever will achieve on your own.

She would never feel conspiratorial with a male in authority, and there were moments when therapist and client needed to feel they were sharing a conspiracy.

Leave me as I am; for the one who enables me to endure the fire will also enable me to remain on the pyre without moving, even without the sense of security that you get from the nails." Polycarp's Prayer

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

God is just as much in the journey as He is the destination.

This day, Lord, I thank You that I am in You and You are in me. Thank You that no matter how I feel, I abide in You. Thank You, Lord, that it is not a position I must struggle to maintain, for You have put me there. This moment is all I will be concerned for. I accept my position of abiding with joy."

We are not suited for fear. We are suited for trust in God.

The normal Christian life is one of problems, but always remember that every problem has passed through the hand of a loving Father and carries with it, before it ever arrives, an express, intrinsic purpose. Those in the midst of affliction usually find the purpose hidden, but the experienced sufferer knows it will prove to be glorious. Problems are God's main tool for bringing us to the end of our own resources and into the deep experience of all His riches.

When we find ourselves in the throes of suffering and pain, we must refuse to play the what-if game. Ask instead, "What if God is greater than my current circumstances? If God is indeed working out a plan to bring himself greater glory, how should I react?" Then respond accordingly, confident that he can use our disappointment to deepen our faith and bring our lives into greater harmony with him.

He answered emails in one word—partly a paranoia about email, but even more a controlling crypticness.