Quotes About Trust

Perhaps what we modern people need most is to be genuinely shaken, so that where life is grounded, we would feel its stability; and where life is unstable and uncertain, immoral and unprincipled, we would know that, also, and endure it. Perhaps that is the ultimate answer to the question of why God has sent us into this time, why He permits this whirlwind to go over the earth, and why He holds us in such a state of chaos and in hopelessness and in darkness-and why there is no end in sight.

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter." - Alfred Eisenstaedt

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5 NIV

Faith sees best in the dark.

God lets you hang out on a limb till the very last second and then rescues you. It builds your trust. If He made it easy all the time, you would never trust Him when you really need to.

No failure, disappointment, or crisis is too great for God to redeem. Only we can limit ourselves by failing to dream and risk again.

I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11 NIV

God has our best interests at heart and wants to work on us in order to work through us.

When loyalty to a person supersedes loyalty to the mission, problems and drama are likely to arise down the road.

As a leader, you must choose wisely with whom you will socialize. Friendship with a subordinate or congregant can be a blessing or a trap fraught with dangers.

Friendships make all the difference in surviving the inevitable crises of leadership.

Low trust is the greatest cost in life and in organizations, including families. Low trust creates hidden agendas, politics, interpersonal conflict, interdepartmental rivalries, win-lose thinking, defensive and protective communication.

A brother offended is harder to win than a strong city, and contentions are like the bars of a castle" (Prov. 18:19 NKJV).

You can more easily partner with God instead of making the situation worse by reacting emotionally.

Getting better requires humbling ourselves before the Lord.

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

I have never used my office for anything other than the purpose in which I hold it - to represent the people who sent me to Washington.

My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.'s lost the trust and faith of everyone.

I believe both parties are sending the wrong kind of people to Washington, D.C.

America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.

Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body.

Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.

I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.