Quotes About Trust

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.

If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.

Es gibt eine Art von Zauberei, die man mühsam erlernen muß: Das ist die, wie sie im Koraktor steht, Zeichen für Zeichen und Formel um Formel. Und dann gibt es eine, die wächst einem aus der Tiefe des Herzens zu: aus der Sorge um jemanden, den man lieb hat. Ich weiß, daß das schwer zu begreifen ist - aber du solltest darauf vertrauen, Krabat.

There's a kind of magic that must be learned with toil and difficulty, line by line, spell by spell, the magic of the Book of Necromancy - and then there's another kind that springs from the depths of the heart, from caring for someone and loving him. It's hard to understand, I know, but you had better trust that magic, Krabat.

Take my hand, don't be afraid. I'm wanna prove every word I say.

A man who has faith is somebody who can be saved.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

The criminal (as slave) often seeks a person of great perfection (and here, as a judge of people's imperfection, the criminal is much harsher than a good man), because he so wants to obtain trust from outside (not through an inner change of mind). If he believes he has found such a person, he gives himself up to him in the most complete slavery, and he searches in an importunate manner for people whom he could serve as a slave. He also wants to live as a slave so as never to be alone.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda

He crept up, and touched the face of the boy. "Didst thou dream that I should be faithless and forsake thee? I— a dog?" said that mute caress.