“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.”
“God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what he is up to.”
“...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don t want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.”
“Wait on the Lord is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often keeps us waiting. He is not in such a hurry as we are, and it is not his way to give more light on the future than we need for action in the present, or to guide us more than one step at a time. When in doubt, do nothing, but continue to wait on God. When action is needed, light will come.”
“I never trust people with no appetite. It s like they re always holding something back on you.”
“I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides. Not being men, these women don t know that in looking back on those he has had tender relations with, a man s heart returns closest to her who was the soul of truth in her conduct. The better class of man, even if caught by airy affectations of dodging and parrying, is not retained by them. A Nemesis attends the woman who plays the game of elusiveness too often, in the utter contempt for her that, sooner or later, her old admirers feel; under which they allow her to go unlamented to her grave.”
“Over time as most people fail the survivor s exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.”
“It isn t an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don t know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.”
“Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they re doing it because they care about the team.”
“They may fight with us, but they don t fight for us.”
“We re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.”
“Yeah, okay. But, Nico, you do choose how to live your life. You want to trust somebody? Maybe take a risk that I m really your friend and I ll accept you. It s better than hiding.”
“Do you trust me Ana? Ana! Yes,I do. I respond spontaneously, not thinking...because it s true-I do trust him. Well,then he looks relieved. The rest of this stuff is just details important details”
“She recognized that that is how friendships begin: one person reveals a moment of strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit it.”
“Give me your trust, said the Aes Sedai. On my shoulders I support the sky. Trust me to know and to do what is best, And I will take care of the rest. But trust is the color of a dark seed growing. Trust is the color of a heart s blood flowing. Trust is the color of a soul s last breath. Trust is the color of death. Give me your trust said the queen on her throne, for I must bear the burden alone. Trust me to lead and to judge and to rule, and no man will think you a fool. But trust is the sound of the grave-dog s bark. Trust is the sound of betrayal in the dark. Trust is the sound of a soul s last breath. Trust is the sound of death.”
“If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of nature you are simply paralyzed”
“He couldn’t say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he’d learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she’d knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. “It’s fixed. As long as you don’t mind more than a few scars.”