Quotes About Trust

Besides other impediments, it may be remarked that, where there is a consciousness of unjust or dishonorable purposes, communication is always checked by distrust in proportion to the number whose concurrence is necessary

The best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

I never did think the truth was a crime.

I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.

A man with a bad character is liable to be blamed for any misdeed which may be done; while a person who is not open to suspicion may commit depredation without challenge.

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.

I do not steal victory.

they fought for each other, not some plan from high authority.

The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in our culture. It is the means we adopt to protect ourselves against being hurt, but when such attitudes become characterological or structured in the personality, they constitute a more severe hurt and create a greater crippling than the one originally suffered.

All that this world knows of living lies in giving -- and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.

Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?

Love is the foundation of all obedience.

He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.

One man, with God to back him, is always in the majority.

Self-confidence is not the temper which God uses for His instruments. He works with 'bruised reeds,' and breathes His strength into them. It is when a man says 'I can do nothing,' that he is fit for God to employ. 'When I am weak, then I am strong.' Moses

He who makes his needs known to God gains for immediate answer "the peace of God which passeth understanding," and can wait God's time for the rest.

You have nothing to do but to receive the things that are freely given to you of God—the forgiveness, the cleansing, the life, that come from Christ by faith.

Abraham's devotion was sealed and certified because he did not withhold his son, his only son, from God. And God's love is sealed because He hath not withheld His only-begotten Son from us.

He that loves and trusts God possesses God. He that possesses God has enough for earth. He that possesses God has enough for heaven.

Whether God speaks promises, teachings of truth, or commandments, faith accepts them, because it trusts Him. Christ is revealed to us for our faith by the doctrinal statements of the New Testament. But we must grasp Himself, as so revealed, if we are to have faith which saves the soul.

Lord, I cannot walk in the narrow path. Do Thou Thyself come to me and fill my heart and keep my feet.

If a man realises God's hold on him, he feels all others relaxed.

But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?

I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.