Father, let me loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the tension of the grasping hand. Open my hand to receive the nail of Calvary, as Christ’s was opened. He thought Heaven, yea, equality with God, not a thing to be clutched at. So let me release my grasp.
– Jim Elliot –
God has not always answered my prayers. If he had, I would’ve married the wrong man—several times!
– Ruth Bell Graham –
wife of Billy Graham
Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief; it is faith in full bloom. Trust is a conscious act, a fact of which we are aware.
– EM Bounds –
You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more difficult than these, that you need to be anxious about His management of it?
– Hannah Whitall Smith –
Faith is a living and unshakable confidence. A belief in God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.
– Martin Luther –
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
– Augustine –
If we will only surrender ourselves utterly to the Lord, and will trust Him perfectly, we shall find our souls “mounting up with wings as eagles” to the “heavenly places” in Christ Jesus, where earthly annoyances or sorrows have no power to disturb us.
– Hannah Whitall Smith –
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that, I still possess.
– Corrie ten Boom –
We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.
– Harry Ironside –
