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Quotes About Trust

He tucked her in with a quote from Victor Hugo. '"Sleep in peace, God is awake.
~ Jan Karon
If you yield it up, God will make it enough
~ Jan Karon
thus far, and grace will lead me home . . . .
~ Jan Karon
people who keep dogs . . . are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. August Strindberg
~ Jan Karon
For all things work together for good . . ." he murmured, quoting from the book of Romans. "Use this for good," he prayed.
~ Jan Karon
If God puts you there, He is amply sufficient.
~ Jan Karon
All that I have seen," Mr. Emerson said and I say with him, "teaches me to trust the Creator for all that I have not seen.
~ Jan Karon
Don't worry about anything . . ." he said aloud, quoting his all-time standby verse in the fourth chapter of Philippians, "but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, make your requests known unto God, and the peace that passes all understanding will fill your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
~ Jan Karon
His feelings of panic had passed once before; it would pass again, he told himself. He must go forward on faith, not feeling.
~ Jan Karon
Let us weigh the gain and the loss, wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives—if you win, you win all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.
~ Jan Karon
I think you could say I came to the end of myself. I really did want a show all my own, and he had to hammer me pretty hard to make me see that it was all his. We don't like relinquishing the power we never had anyway, even though running the show ourselves never works. I surrendered everything to him. What did I have to lose?
~ Jan Karon
When I speak of God's will, it helps to know that he wants the best for us. If you can't believe he's there, pray anyway. If you feel he's cheap and withholding, thank him anyway. There will come a time when you'll thank him even for the hard places." "Perhaps somewhere I have the smallest bit of faith," she said, "something left over from my childhood. But it's almost nothing, not enough..." "If you yield it up, God will make it enough.
~ Jan Karon
I believe if I were charged with having a goal, it would be to live without fretting—to live more fully in the moment not always huffing about as I've done in recent years . . . to live humbly—and appreciatively—with whatever God furnishes.
~ Jan Karon
I think it means to go unfettered by cares, by the infernal bondage of the mortal. Go with a light heart, trusting God and giving thanks. Go and gather unto yourselves so you can pour out to others.' He took a deep breath. 'Go without looking back.
~ Jan Karon
His style was to give the issue to God and haul it back again, ad infinitum, 'til the cows came home, until the thing finally wore itself out in him.
~ Jan Karon
At a time when he really needed to let go, he was holding on. To Lace. To his stuff. Let go, let God. Come on, man.
~ Jan Karon
God had been merciful. He wanted to be merciful, too. He was the only one who could open the channel between his children and their grandmother. If he could do this with his head, maybe later it would move to his heart.
~ Jan Karon
All your circumstances are in the hand of God," Chambers wrote, "so never think it strange concerning the circumstances you're in.
~ Jan Karon
We are not necessarily doubting," said C. S. Lewis, "that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
~ Jan Karon
For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind," he read aloud from Paul's second letter to Timothy.
~ Jan Karon
In the Thirty-second Psalm, He says, 'I will instruct you, Dooley, and teach you in the way which you should go. I will guide you with my eye.
~ Jan Karon
What God has given us," Taylor had written, "is all we need; we require nothing more. It is not a question of large supplies—it is a question of the presence of the Lord.
~ Jan Karon
God will use this loss for good. I promise.
~ Jan Karon
Love God, be strong, be safe, be happy.
~ Jan Karon