Quotes About Trust

Elizabeth Wein

Oh Julie, wouldn't I know if you were dead? Wouldn't I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?

I am sick of the girl who cries 'wolf' all the time. Even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm

What makes you think i'm so rich you can steal my heart and i won't feel a thing?

The best people are the ones you have to forgive for everything. You have no choice; it would be worse to live without them.

I tell each of them whatever it is I think they want to hear because it is the only way to guarantee that either of them will love me. Insofar as a truth existed for me, it changed depending on whether I was with my mom or my dad.

I mean, if I were a rich kid with stable, self-sufficient parents whom I thought I could trust to attend to themselves and to me, and I were heading for a tailspin, I might feel free to let myself free-fall, knowing that someone else would provide a bottom upon which I might eventually bottom out. But what if you are the only resting point you know of? What if you are absolute zero? What if only you can catch yourself?

Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

it is possible to heal. It is even possible to thrive. Thriving means more than just an alleviation of symptoms, more than Band-Aids, more than functioning adequately. Thriving means enjoying a feeling of wholeness, satisfaction in your life and work, genuine love and trust in your relationships, pleasure in your body.

You have the right to set ground rules. This means deciding if, when, and how you want to see the people in your family. Many survivors feel that if they open up the channels at all, they have to open them up all the way. When you were a child you had two options—to trust or not to trust. Your options are broader now.

Ellen Kushner

God does work through hurt. God works in the midst of all things.

To refuse to fight for love that is both free and responsible is in a sense to reject the possibility of love itself.

And who knows, thought Cadfael, which is in the right, the young man who sees the best in all, and trusts all, or the old one who suspects all until he has probed them through and through? The one may stumble into a snare now and then, but at least enjoy sunshine along the way, between falls. The other may never miss his footing, but seldom experience joy. Better find a way somewhere between!

Say your prayers, think quietly what you should do, do it, and sleep. There is no man living, neither king nor emperor, can do more or better, or trust in a better harvest.

Never let it shake your faith that there is a balance hereafter. What you see is only a broken piece from a perfect whole.

There is no profit in ifs. We go on from where we stand, we answer for our own evil, and leave to God our good.

I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form that we expect and demand.

But it is our duty to preserve what we may, and fit together such fragments as we find, and take the rest on trust.

you will tell me roundly that God's reach is longer than man's." "It had better be," said Brother Cadfael very solemnly, "otherwise we are all lost." Turn the page to continue reading from the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael

When harried, we go as far as we dare, and with those we're sure of we dare go very far, knowing where forgiveness is certain.

Love shared is no sin.

Then sleep easy, said Cadfael, for God is awake.

Ellis Peters