Quotes About Trust

most people who are angry with God are angry with him for being God. They're not angry because he has failed to deliver what he promised, They're angry because he has failed to deliver what they have craved, expected or demanded.

Prayer is not bringing your list and asking God to sign on the bottom. Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

He lifts the burden of change off our shoulders and never calls us to do what only he can do.

Discontent is good if it makes you long for home, but bad if it makes you doubt the One who prepares a place for you in his home.

My Savior has been with me, for me, and in me, and he works to take very bad things and produce through them very, very good things.

He knows that parents who admit that they are inadequate and run to God make the best parents.

We all face things that appear to make little sense and don't seem to serve any good purpose. So rest is never found in the quest to understand it all. No, rest is found in trusting the One who understands it all and rules it all for his glory and our good.

Look at your trials and see grace. Behind those difficulties is an ever-present Redeemer who is completing his work.

Tear up your list and throw it away—what God has planned for you is better than anything you've dreamed of for yourself.

Yes, it is true—God will remain faithful even when you're not, because his faithfulness rests on who he is, not on what you're doing.

God is with you in your moments of darkness because he will never leave you. But your darkness isn't dark to him. Your mysteries aren't mysterious to him. Your surprises don't surprise him. He understands all the things that confuse you the most.

So peace is found only in trust, trust of the One who is in careful control of all the things that tend to rob you of your peace. He knows, he understands, he is in control of what appears to be chaos, he is never surprised, he is never confused, he never worries or loses a night's sleep, he never walks off the job to take a rest, he never gets so busy with one thing that he neglects another, and he never plays favorites.

This means he fights for us even when we have given up the fight. Our desire to follow him may weaken, but he will never give up or turn his back on us. He knows us because he made us, which is why he sent his Son to be for us what we could not be for ourselves and to do for us what we could not do on our own.

Wherever your story takes you, you'll never arrive there first, because your Lord is already there in sovereign presence and power, and he rules that place in infinite wisdom and holiness.

Good parenting lives at the intersection of a humble admission of personal powerlessness and a confident rest in the power and grace of God.

It requires powerful mercy for me to become a person who surrenders self-appointed authority to the authority of God.

It takes God's rescuing hand for me to forsake the purpose of my kingdom and take up the purpose of his.

God will remain faithful even when you're not, because his faithfulness rests on who he is, not on what you're doing.

Parenting is about being used of God to bring your children to that wholesome and heart-changing place of personal hopelessness. This is not a process of condemnation, but of patient and loving rescue.

Rest will only be found as you are willing to believe that there is Someone who is controlling the details of your life, not only for his glory, but also for your good.

It is only when the peace of God rules my heart that I can know real peace with you.

putting your entire existence in the hands of One whom you cannot see, touch, or hear is far from natural. This is why faith is only ever a gift of divine grace.

True biblical faith is always something that you live. If your faith does not reshape your life, it is not true faith.

Many people have talked to me about God in the middle of difficulties, and after listening to them, I have been struck that, if I believed in the "God" they described, I wouldn't run to him for help either, and I'd be in a panic