Quotes about Trust

As John Piper puts it, "For people who are passing through the dark night of the soul, turnaround will come because God brings unwavering lovers of Christ into their lives who do not give up on them."24

This is where we pull a chair up to our Father's table. We acknowledge that he has the means to feed us—whatever our hunger is. We go to him with our most basics needs anticipating he will feed us from his bounty. We ask because it demonstrates not only our need, but our trust in his provision for us.

You become part of the family by surrendering your agenda and joining God's deal.

True faith is forged in the furnace, not the showroom.

While I hate to ever lose a supporter, I've come to realize that one who would abandon me over a single statement or decision I made is a person who would abandon me sooner or later anyway.

In church politics, you're surprised when people are bad, while in secular politics you're surprised when people are good.

Faith is the way we as receivers relate appropriately to God as the giver. It is empty hands held open for God to fill.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

God doesn't require is to succeed; he only require that you try.