#trusting

Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He's so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands. ↗

— Lynn Austin

#faith #inspirational #trust #trusting-god #faith

We have very little faith in the Lord, very little trust. If we trusted the Lord as much as we trust a friend when we ask him to do something for us, neither we as individuals nor our whole country would suffer so much. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#eastern-orthodoxy #faith #jesus-christ #political #self-help

God alone knows exactly what you and I must endure in order to form His character in us. It is in our trials that God refines us and removes our impurities. Like refined gold, when we pass through our trials, people will see His perfect reflection in us. ↗

— Wendy Blight

#faith #god #religion #struggles #trials

I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#armour #become #being #consciously #family

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious. ↗

— Hugo Black

#made #protect #suspicious #trusting #well

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. ↗

— Euripides

#hopes #man #persevere #trusting

If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#christ #down #enable #followers #forward

Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#direct #expressing #honest #inner #listening

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs. ↗

— James Herriot

#care #child #dependent #helpless #hope

All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#admiration #american #canadian #counseling #encouraging-and-empowering-girls