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Quotes About Trust

Isaiah himself was only more aware of his shame as it stood in contrast to the perfection and purity of the Lord. It brought him to despair at his predicament. But despair is not a bad thing when it compels us to trust in or be associated with God himself.
~ Edward T. Welch
Fear has given birth to extreme parenting. It looks like love, but it is love mingled with fear.
~ Edward T. Welch
This is good news: you don't have to know the exact cause of suffering in order to find hope and comfort.
~ Edward T. Welch
Action follows our knowledge of God and trust in him. It is as if God has said to us, "Now that you have seen who I am, you will want to love me in return. This is how you can love me." And then God teaches us how to love him.
~ Edward T. Welch
When your wants become needs, it means that you have put your trust in people. They have become like a god to you. Yet, for some reason, the true God is patient with you. Although you might reject him, he doesn't reject you. And this is everyone's story.
~ Edward T. Welch
You can't have a deeper relationship if you won't allow yourself to be known. All
~ Edward T. Welch
Worry's magnetic attraction can only be broken by a stronger attraction, and David is saying [in Psalm 27] we can only find that attraction in God Himself.
~ Edward T. Welch
They are God's liturgy, prepared for you in advance. How
~ Edward T. Welch
Are you worried? Jesus says there is nothing to worry about. It isn't our kingdom, it's God's. We take our cue from the King, and the King is not fretting over anything. He is in complete control.
~ Edward T. Welch
Isabelle didn't need to call my name. Not because of the twin telepathy thing people always talk about, but because we were holding hands. We were holding hands the tightest we have ever held hands in our entire lives. We were holding hands just as we had on the day we were born.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Our faith is a mishmash of many things. We believe in family, in music and art, but we mostly believe in each other -Giselle
~ Edwidge Danticat
we instinctively trust the banality and predictability of daily life. Until something larger shatters our world.
~ Edwidge Danticat
When you go, if you go, And I should want to die, there's nothing I'd be saved by more than the time you fell asleep in my arms in a trust so gentle I let the darkening room drink up the evening, till rest, or the new rain lightly roused you awake. I asked if you heard the rain in your dream and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.
~ Edwin Morgan
There's no point delegating a decision if you won't accept the outcome.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Then take them there. They can still change their minds, can't they? But you make sure Rack understands that he owes us both a finder's fee, if they pass his tests." "They will," Mr. Quindar said. "Got a nose for these things, I 'ave. And these sisters ain't slipping through my fingers.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Don't any of you go taking any notice of the Government's promises. They will tell you anything to get you in but when you "do your bit" as they call it, you will soon be forgotten and so will the promises – don't you forget that. Now you must do as you think right.
~ Albert B. Facey
Integrity has no need of rules.
~ Albert Camus
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
~ Albert Camus
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.
~ Albert Camus
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
~ Albert Camus
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
~ Albert Camus
A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.
~ Albert Camus
Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
~ Albert Camus
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never.
~ Albert Camus