Quotes About Trust

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Number 40: Love is worth the risk.

The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an amalgam, and it is impossible to know what moments, what foibles, what charms will come to define us once we're gone. All we can do is live our lives fully, be authentically ourselves, and trust that the right things about us, the best and most fitting things, will echo in the memories of us that endure.

We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the buzz of his whispered wisecracks in my ear. But there would be as well his willingness to reveal, or more his inability to conceal, that he had been silently rehearsing my name as he climbed the stairs behind me. There would be his willingness to bestow upon me the power to reassure him. He would trust me with his happiness.

There was... her capacity to believe. There was as well her capacity to be deceived, since you can't have one without the other...

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?

I don't believe I'll ever leave: will I really leave?

I don't believe something.

I'm the one into whose arms you fall when you fall through all of space.

A man another woman can steal from you ain't your man no way

Thanks, little brother," said the Dump to Blue. "You helped me and they helped you. Now I see a lot depends on a helping hand from a few good friends!

Our Way is called a Narrow Way often a lonely road a road of trusting uncertainty ... I need A safe space—no matter how small— to get off the road till my vision is clear till I can see through the tears till hands steady against the fears ... I need To remember that my life is hidden in the cleft of the Rock that to surrender is to stay, to still, to remember love always makes a Way ...

Well, I think adultery is a filthy habit,' said Rose, 'like using someone else's toothbrush.

Those who betray others, lie and deceive, deserve each other.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be." —C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)3

Patience grows well in such soil. She is the ally of a soul that makes God its primary pursuit,

But in anonymous seasons we must hold tightly to the truth that no doubt strengthened Jesus throughout his hidden years: Father God is neither care-less nor cause-less with how he spends our lives. When he calls a soul simultaneously to greatness and obscurity, the fruit—if we wait for it—can change the world.

No matter how we rationalize, God will sometimes seem unfair from the perspective of a person trapped in time. . . . Not until history has run its course will we understand how 'all things work together for good.' Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse." — PHILIP YANCEY

When those pauses extend beyond what we can comprehend or explain (say, for instance, three days), we often spiral into selfdoubt or second-guessing. But in anonymous seasons we must hold tightly to the truth that no doubt strengthened Jesus throughout his hidden years: Father God is neither care-less nor cause-less with how he spends our lives. When he calls a soul simultaneously to greatness and obscurity, the fruit—if we wait for it—can change the world.

The glorious mystery is that listening for God holds power whether or not anything is heard.

The Father's work in us does not sleep—though in spiritual winters he retracts all advertisement. And when he does so, he is purifying our faith, strengthening our character, conserving our energy, and preparing us for the future. The sleepy days of winter hide us so that seductive days of summer will not ruin us.