Quotes About Trust

We must all come to understand and accept the truth that our walks with God are community projects.

Biblical literacy does not dispel all confusion and mystery from your life because while God reveals his will for you in the Bible, he does not reveal all the things he will do in your life for your good and his glory. God surprises you.

most people who are angry with God are angry with him for being God. They

I don't know if you've thought about this, but there are only two places to look for hope. You can search for it horizontally, thinking that something in creation will give you the security, peace, and inner sense of well-being that you seek, or you can seek it vertically, entrusting your life into the loving hands of your Creator

Your King rules over everything that would discourage and disappoint you, and he rules for your good and his glory. What is out of your control is under his rule.

As you struggle, you must not view your marriage as bad luck, or poor planning, or as a mess that you made for yourself. No, God is right smack-dab in the middle of your struggle. He is not surprised by what you are facing today. He is up to something.

Since your standing with God is based not on your righteousness but on Christ's, in moments of failure, you can run to him and not from him.

You and I weren't created for independent living. We were created to be dependent on God.

if you're God's child, your life is never, ever out of control.

To think today, when your life doesn't work as planned, that it's out of control is to forget that Jesus reigns for your sake and his glory.

You will never be left to the limited range of your own resources.

What will it be for you today—the discontent of doubt and fear or the contentment of peace and rest?

if your faith is based on your ability to fully understand your past, present, and future, then your moments of confusion will become moments of weakening faith.

hope is nothing less than a confident expectation of a guaranteed result.

Suffering makes us susceptible to the one voice we should never hear and that will always do us harm.

The central lie of Satan to all God's suffering children comes in the form of this question: "Where is your God now?" The lie embedded in this question is that our suffering is clear evidence that we have been forsaken by God.

When I gossip, I confess the sin of another person to someone who is not involved. Gossip doesn't restrain sin; it encourages it. It doesn't build someone's character; it destroys his reputation.

God's often-repeated declaration that he will not leave sits on the pages of his Word as a protection against the lies to which suffering makes us susceptible.

Faith is something that you do with your life. True biblical faith doesn't stop with thought; it radically rearranges the way that you approach everything in your life.

The minute your functional theology tells you that God is not good, it's very hard to hold on to the confessional theology that declares he is.

Our motivation to stand firm in faith, even when we are going through things that we don't understand, is found in one thing: God's declaration of his intention toward us.

The biblical model of waiting is not simply about what you will get at the end of your wait, but about who you will become as you wait.

The crisis of faith that often accompanies suffering is the result of a collision between our will and God's will and our glory and his glory.

Don't be discouraged at the spiritual war you're called to fight every day. The Lord almighty is with you and wars on your behalf.