Quotes About Trust

You are exactly what you seem, and so you always assume that other people are, too.

Keeping secrets was the beginning of freedom.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

When you are down and out something always turns up -- and it is usually the noses of your friends.

A certain great and powerful king once asked a poet: "What can I give you of all that I have?" He wisely replied, "Anything sir… except your secret."

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

When you are down and out, something always turns up - usually the noses of your friends.

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

In short, contrary to the founders—and in ways they do not realize themselves—Americans today are heedlessly pursuing a vision of freedom that is short-lived and suicidal. Once again, freedom without virtue, leadership without character, business without trust, law without customs, education without meaning and medicine, science and technology without human considerations can end only in disaster.

It is no great feat to burn a little man. It is a great achievement to persuade him. ERASMUS, LETTER

Our task is to focus on our individual callings in engaging with the world, to trust that others are following theirs too, and to leave to God the masterminding of the grand outcome.

The Christian faith is not true because it works. It works because it is true.

What is the difference between God disguising himself and deceiving us? That is where the principle of suspended judgment operates. Face to face with mystery, and especially the mystery of evil, the faith that understands why it has come to trust must trust where it has not come to understand. Faith does not know why in terms of the immediate, but it knows why it trusts God who knows why in terms of the ultimate.

Don't trust anyone over thirty," the 1960s radicals cried. "Don't trust anyone under three hundred," came Thomas Oden's wise reply.

For anyone who understands freedom, it is simply inescapable that freedom requires truth, a shared sense of truth, and therefore trustworthiness and trust.

Don't trust anyone over thirty," the 1960s radicals cried. "Don't trust anyone under three hundred," came Thomas Oden's wise reply. "Vox temporis" (the voice of the times) is no more trustworthy than "vox populi" (the voice of the people) when set against "vox dei" (the voice of God).

If we truly know why we trust God—and that crucial if must be answered with full intellectual and spiritual assurance—if we truly know why we trust God, then God is greater than all, and God may be trusted in all situations, despite everyone and everything.

the truth is this: We always have sure and sufficient reasons for knowing why we can trust God, but do not always know what God is doing and why.

To believe in Jesus is to bow twice and then to obey forever

We are never more completely ourselves than when we make that decision to trust in God.

Your security is not in the hands of [Democratic presidential candidate John] Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands and each state which does not harm our security will remain safe.

Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.

Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands.

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.