#trust

Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#faith #god #grief #trust #faith

Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#contentment #faith #joy #trials #trust

You shall find it greatly mitigates the sorrow of bereavements, if before bereavement you shall have learned to surrender every day all the things which are dearest to you into the keeping of your gracious God. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#faith #self-denial #surrender #trust #faith

Yet even in such moments she didn’t doubt that God existed. She just sometimes wondered if He remembered that she did. ↗

— Tamera Alexander

#faith #god #trust #faith

I realized that with Chance and me, there were no secrets. Or at least none that I could otherwise explain. I said, "I trust you more than I trust my own family, you know that?" "Well, they don't set the bar real high." He smiled at me, a silly, playful smile. The kind of smile shared by people with a lot of history. ↗

— Barbra Annino

#stacy-justice #trust #family

We cling to the comfortable rather than step out into the possible. ↗

— Mary DeTurris Poust

#possible #trust #faith

We are always hungry and never satisfied because we don’t trust and won’t risk. Can we reach a place where we are satisfied with just enough? You are enough. You have enough. Do not worry about tomorrow. God will provide in our lives just as God provides in the Eucharist. ↗

— Mary DeTurris Poust

#catholic #faith #risk #the-eucharist #trust

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous. ↗

— Aravind Adiga

#distrust #friend #friendship #friendship

I feel like our whole friendship was a lie. She's probably the only person I've ever really opened up to, and the whole time she was hiding stuff from me. I just don't feel like I can trust somebody like that. ↗

— Brendan Halpin

#trust #friendship

I would carry some of it if I could, Bean said silently. Like I did today, you can turn it over to me and I’ll do it, if I can. You don’t have to do this alone. Only even as he thought this, Bean knew it wasn’t true. If it could be done, Ender was the one who would have to do it. All those months when Bean refused to see Ender, hid from him, it was because he couldn’t bear to face the fact that Ender was what Bean only wished to be — the kind of person on whom you could put all your hopes, who could carry all your fears, and he would not let you down, would not betray you. I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#friendship #trust #friendship