Quotes on Faith & Trust

Christian quotes on Faith & Trust — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.

By gentle powers wonderfully sheltered, we quietly await what e'er may come. God is with us at evening and in morning, and most assuredly on each new day.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I would not be able to seek you if you had not already found me.

Augustine of Hippo

It is unimaginable what God can make of the fragments of our life, when we surrender them to him completely.

Blaise Pascal

For those who love God, he turns everything into good, even their wrong turns and mistakes God lets become good for them.

Augustine of Hippo

I asked God for many things so that I could enjoy life. God gave me life, so that I could enjoy all things.

Gertrud von le Fort

We live out of the boundless riches of Christ. Some of us talk as if our heavenly Father had fobbed us off with pocket money.

Oswald Chambers

No one can fall deeper than into the hand of God.

Peter Hahne

God seeks you more than your offering.

Augustine of Hippo

Those who wait on God lose nothing by waiting.

Corrie ten Boom

The strongest faith isn't a faith that never doubts. Rather, it's a faith that grows through doubts.

Craig Groeschel

God is closer to us than we are to ourselves.

Augustine of Hippo

God helps at the latest, just in time.

Arno Backhaus

Every time I say, "Jesus, I'm not capable...", He says, "So what? I am capable."

Hans Peter Royer

God always finishes what He starts.

John MacArthur

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it but because, by it, I see everything else.

C.S. Lewis

Commit your ways and whatever grieves your heart to the most faithful care of him who governs heaven! He who gives paths, course, and way to clouds, air, and winds will also find a way for your foot to walk.

Paul Gerhardt

Do you see the moon standing there? It's only half visible, and yet it's round and lovely! So it is with many things that we lightly laugh about, because our eyes cannot see them.

Matthias Claudius

What I think of Jesus? That he holds me.

Lothar Zenetti

Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things pass away. God never changes. Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.

Teresa of Ávila

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Jim Elliot

The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

Thomas Merton

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Frederick Buechner

He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.

Joni Eareckson Tada

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Corrie ten Boom

God does not fulfill all our wishes, but all his promises.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Martin Luther

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.

Robert Murray McCheyne

You don’t realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.

Tim Keller

In me it is dark, but with you there is light; I am lonely, but you do not leave me.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Whatever tomorrow may bring, our God is a God of tomorrow too.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

My past no longer concerns me. It belongs to God's mercy. My future does not yet concern me. It belongs to divine providence. What concerns me, and what claims me, is today - it belongs to God's grace and to the surrender of my heart, my good will.

Francis de Sales

We don't need great faith, but faith in a great God.

Hudson Taylor

Faith enables us to hew stones of hope out of the mountain of despair.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Security in the ultimate gives serenity in the penultimate.

Romano Guardini

God writes straight even on crooked lines.

Paul Claudel

I know nothing at all, except that God reserves everything to himself, but holds on to me.

Jochen Klepper

I believe that God can and wants to let good come out of everything, even the worst. For that he needs people who let all things serve them for the best.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God lets us walk no path that he himself has not walked, and on which he does not go ahead of us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The ways of God are like a Hebrew book that can only be read from the back.

Martin Luther

How often you have fallen into great distress through your own will, when your blinded mind mistook death for life. But he who loves us eternally sets right what we confuse, brings joy where we grieve ourselves, and leads us where we go astray.

Paul Gerhardt

People quoted here

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Augustine of Hippo, Blaise Pascal, Gertrud von le Fort, Oswald Chambers, Peter Hahne, Corrie ten Boom, Craig Groeschel, Arno Backhaus, Hans Peter Royer, John MacArthur, C.S. Lewis

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