Quotes About Trust

Your peace of mind, your assurance of answers to vexing problems, your ultimate joy depend upon your trust in Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ.

Find the compensatory blessings in your life when, in the wisdom of the Lord, He deprives you of something you very much want… You will discover compensatory blessings when you willingly accept the will of the Lord and exercise faith in Him.

What may appear initially to be a daunting task will be much easier to manage over time as you consistently strive to recognize and follow feelings prompted by the Spirit. Your confidence in the direction you receive from the Holy Ghost will also become stronger. I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

Your exercise of faith builds character. Fortified character expands your capacity to exercise greater faith. Thus, your confidence in making correct decisions is enhanced. And the strengthening cycle continues. The more your character is fortified, the more enabled you are to exercise the power of faith for yet stronger character.

How grateful am I personally that our Savior taught we should conclude our most urgent, deeply felt prayers, when we ask for that which is of utmost importance to us, with "Thy will be done.

To recognize the hand of the Lord in your life and to accept His will without complaint is a beginning. That decision does not immediately eliminate the struggles that will come for your growth. But I witness that it is the best way there is for you to find strength and understanding.

we of necessity, are more dependent upon the Spirit to guide us through the vicissitudes of life. Therefore, we are led to seek personal inspiration in life's important decisions.

But a testimony is not emotion. It is the very essence of character woven from threads born of countless correct decisions. These choices are made with trusting faith in things that are believed and, at least initially, are not seen.

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.

A relação da medicina com o charlatanismo é a mesma da astronomia com a astrologia. O que as estrelas predizem para os leitores de jornais é inofensivo, mas o lançamento de um ônibus espacial ou de um satélite, orientado pela astrologia, ao invés da astronomia, seria desastroso. Mas a humanidade sofre de uma fascinação eterna pelos charlatães. Talvez porque todos nós gostemos de pensar que sabemos mais do que nossos médicos.

Quando a rainha Adelaide consultou um homeopata, Guilherme IV ordenou ao médico real, Robert Keate (1777-1857): "Examine a receita que ele der a ela para ver se a rainha pode tomar sem perigo." Eu prometi fazer isso, e quando recebi a receita, eu disse: "Ah, majestade, ela pode tomar durante sete anos que, no fim desse tempo, não terá tomado nem uma grama de medicamento".

This reflects a general tendency. People are more willing to lie by omission than commission. If I am selling you a used car, I do not feel obligated to mention that the car is burning a lot of oil, but if you ask me explicitly: "Does this car burn a lot of oil?" you are likely to wangle an admission from me that yes, there has been a small problem along those lines. To get at the truth, it helps to ask specific questions.

Second marriage, Samuel Johnson once quipped, "is the triumph of hope over experience.")

The Buddha told his disciples, "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." I say the same to you—you must assume the responsibility for what you believe.

The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to earn their right to a hearing by the value of what they say, and not by virtue of who is saying it. Today, authority has to earn respect by the intrinsic value of what it says, not by the force of its imposition.

All my worries had been for nothing. That's usually how it is with worrying. More often than not, we get ourselves all in a sweat over something that might happen, then everything turns out just fine.

A good friend of mine is a cup of tea indeed.

Well," my father said to her, and looked at her. "Well," my mother said to him, and looked at him. In that quietness they were speaking their own language, with their eyes, with the way they stood, with what they put into the air about them, each knowing what the other was saying, and having strength one from the other, for they had been learning through forty years of being together, and their minds were one.

Wyn we called her from the start, see. Nothing else to be done with a girl like that. Brown eyes she had, big, with eyelashes that touched her brows, and a smile in her voice, and looking to Davy as to a brother of God.

I wish I were a boy again-unquestioning, with no need to analyze the moment.

Everyone has a secret place in his mind. Otherwise relationships would be impossible.

desperate need to believe in a God that shepherded his own creations.

Tell ya the man's got a private line t'Moscow," he said. "A few men like that in office and we're in for it, take my word.

He who lives under it and is disloyal to it is a traitor to the human race everywhere.