#rust

The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#dependence-on-god #faith #insurance #material-goods #possessions

Maybe I am everything I knew that I would never be. I looked back at Jay and smiled. ↗

— Holly Hood

#goodbyes #hope #love #romance #sad

If you have firm trust in God, the success that comes to you will always be that which is most useful for you whether it appears good or bad in your private judgment. ↗

— St. Francis de Sales

#god #trust #faith

God is merciful to those who want to love Him and who have placed their hopes in Him. ↗

— St. Francis de Sales

#god #trust #faith

It must not be forgotten that reason too needs to be sustained in all its searching by trusting dialogue and sincere friendship. A climate of suspicion and distrust, which can beset speculative research, ignores the teaching of the ancient philosophers who proposed friendship as one of the most appropriate contexts for sound philosophical enquiry. ↗

— John Paul II

#friendship #philosophy #reason #trust #truth

Never does our good God leave us save to hold us better; never does He let go of us save to keep us better; never does He wrestle with us save to give Himself up to us and to bless us. ↗

— St. Francis de Sales

#god #trust #faith

Faith looks to God, hopes in God, and believes in His promises, regardless of our actual circumstances. ↗

— Wendy Blight

#faith #god #religion #trust #truth

Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other human beings. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#faith #justification #religions #trust #faith

Faithfulness: where faith is full of necessary trusts! ↗

— Munia Khan

#faithful #faithfulness #trust #faith

Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#religious #trust #faith