Quotes About Trust

What is my end goal in raising each of the children God has entrusted to me, and then how will I parent them with that end in mind?

While far from perfect, the Spiritually Healthy parent is a parent who walks each day, step by step, with God as his or her guide.

We stop living the life that He planned for us, and we start living out of dysfunction instead.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it. Mary Karr, The Liar's Club

One of the essential paradoxes of Advent: that while we wait for God, we are with God all along ,that while we need to be reassured of God's arrival, or the arrival of our homecoming, we are already at home. While we wait, we have to trust, to have faith, but it is God's grace that gives us that faith. As with all spiritual knowledge, two things are true, and equally true, at once. The mind can't grasp paradox; it is the knowledge of the soul.

Michelle Celmer

Why don't you just call her? Mitch turned to find Lance standing in the doorway, arms folded across his chest. He sighed and asked is it that obvious? Lance grinned. You look just like I felt when Kate left me. And trust me when I say, if she loves you, she'll forgive whatever you did. (Chapter 13)

people suffer much more from the promises they don't make than the ones they can't keep

Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.

Secrets work on me like splinters. I like them out.

One great thing about church friends: they buy and read your books.

At one point, Jack was enlisted to move Red from his aunt Maude's house in Redlands to his grandma Iris's house in Pomona.

Family is family," sighed the gondolier. "Family is everything," declared Marta Gasperin

A lie, when believed, became the truth.

I'm like a stray cat. If you feed me, I don't leave.

Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn't have tried to turn ya into a snake.

So be willing to wait. Only embrace a man who has a heart for God's purposes for his life and God's heart for you. Keep hope alive!

I had struggled so hard and so long that I had simply exhausted myself, only to find that God had all the time in the world to wait for me to allow Him to free me.

Don't let the pressures around you make you settle for anything less than God's will for your life.

patience is the weapon that forces deception to reveal itself. It is the insurance against being deceived or making wrong decisions. Some things can only be made known by waiting. God takes his time.

God knows both your name and address. When the right man comes along God will lead him to your door. And that man will recognize your name.

So often women enter into love covenants with those who come disguised as Mr. Right. Like the men of Israel who never took the time to look beyond the surface, some women hear words and romantic gestures and take them at face value, without inquiring of the Lord.

No matter how long you have been waiting, the man God has for you will surpass your expectations. You will meet him when god says so. Not a minute early, not a moment later.

I mean I want you be happy, not just for your own sake but because that's the only way a marriage works.