Quotes About Trust

Last, this great "mountain of friendship" will also become for you a place of refuge.

In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths" (Prov. 3:6) could be translated, "In all your courting, seek intimacy with Him first.

Only Americans can hurt America.

One day the people of the world will want peace so much that the governments will have to get out of their way and give it to them.

True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.

The right to challenge a man's judgment carries with it no automatic right to question his honor.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.

Friend, my enemy, I call you out. You, you, you there with a bad thorn in your side. You there, my friend, with a winning air. Who pawned the lie on me when he looked brassly at my shyest secret. With my whole heart under your hammer. That though I loved him for his faults as much as for his good. My friend were an enemy upon stilts with his head in a cunning cloud. -Dylan Thomas

By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison.

If our perception of God's character is distorted due to our own experiences of life's disappointments and our own histories of trauma, then having an all-seeing and always-present God could be stifling and produce fear instead of love and trust.

Sometimes we fail to enjoy living in an Immanuel reality due to a distorted per 9 ception of God's character.

God knows our history. No matter how insightful a therapist may be or wise a friend is, only God can ultimately know the intricacies of our lives and experiences. His eyes never leave us, and He knows us better than we know ourselves.

The way I work] is like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. (The Paris Review, Winter 1986, No. 101)

Jamie, when the stakes are high, I never cheat. I consider myself too important to do that.

Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret is no fun. And although you don't want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.

Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver.

dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backward) honour the past but welcome the future (and dance your death away at this wedding) never mind a world with its villains or heroes (for god likes girls and tomorrow and the earth)

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is something valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch.

It takes two to be serious

I fear no fate for you are my fate, my sweet.

love's to giving as to keeping's give; as yes is to if,love is to yes

A person cannot live without looking for good signs, you just cannot do it, and I thought these signs were good.

I knew he was the real thing because when he laughed other men at the table laughed with him.

If she loved she acted in love, if she was betrayed she was destroyed. These were the shining and dangerous facts of the life of an innocent.