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Trust In God: Quotations from Burning Words

I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.— J. A. GARFIELD

God lives! there rest, my soul; God hears! before Him bow; God sees! and can control; God leads! then follow thou. God gives and loves, - Look up above! O heart, be done with all thy care! You shall live with Him there.— SCHMOLKE,

May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.— H. W. BEECHER

Ease of mind! But I think I can guess at what you mean. God became every thing to you as the world grew nothing Father, perfect my trust; Let my spirit feel in death That her feet are firmly set On the rock of a living faith!— PHOEBE CARY

If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.— C. H. SPURGEON

The believer is no burden to his God, and even if you should be carrying whole mountains of care and solicitude, they will not make you more burdensome or your case more difficult to the Creator of the ends of the earth. He fainteth not, neither is weary.— JAMES HAMILTON

On Thee we fling our burdening woe, O love Divine, forever dear : Content to suffer, while we know, Living and dying, Thou art near !— O. W. HOLMES

I have never committed the least matter to Him that I have not had reason for endless praise.— ANNA SHIPTON

We want to know more than the silent God deems it good to tell; to understand the "why" which He bids us wait to ask; to see the path which He has spread on purpose in the dark. The Infinite Father does not stand by us to be catechised, and explain Himself to our vain mind; He is here for our trust. Like a blind spinner in the sun, I tread my days. I know that all the threads will run Appointed ways; I know each day will bring its task, And being blind, no more I ask. I do not know the use or name Of that I spin; I only know that some one came And laid within My hand the thread, and said, "Since you Are blind, but one thing you can do." -— MRS. H. F. JACKSON

Ah, no! henceforth my own desire shall be, That He who knows me best should choose for me; And so, whate'er His love sees good to send, I'll trust it's best, because He knows the end. -— MRS. C. HOBART

If thou couldst trust, poor soul! In Him who rules the whole, Thou wouldst find peace and rest; Wisdom and sight are well, but trust is best. -— A. A. PROCTOR

How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world!— JEAN PAUL RICHTER

What dost thou fear? His wisdom reigns Supreme, confessed; His power is infinite; His love Thy deepest, fondest dreams above, So trust and rest. A friend called on me when I was ill, to settle some business. My head was too much confused by my indisposition to understand fully what he said, but I had such unlimited confidence in him, that I did whatever he bid me, in the fullest assurance that it was right. How simply I can trust in man, and how little in God! How unreasonable is a pure act of faith in one like ourselves, if we cannot repose the same faith in God.— RICHARD CECIL

When God says to us, "Give me your load, trust me, what you cannot do, I will do for you," He puts our faith to one of the strongest tests. He never consents to carry our burdens unless we give them to Him.— T. L. CUYLER

My little fellow, about four years old, whom I brought with me, gave himself no trouble amid the boats, omnibuses, and railway coaches, on sea, land, and in dark tunnels; his father was at his side, and never a care or fear or doubt or anxiety had he. May we have grace to be led by the hand, and trust to the care and kindness of a reconciled God and Father.— THOMAS GUTHRIE

We come, in our trust, unto God, and the moment we so embrace Him, by committing our total being and eternity to Him, we find every thing is transformed. There is life in us from God; a kind of Christ-consciousness is opened in us, testifying with the apostle, - Christ liveth in me.— HORACE BUSHNELL

We have nothing to do but to surrender ourselves to God each day, without looking farther; He will carry us in His arms as a tender mother bears her child. Let us believe, hope, and love with all the simplicity of babes; in every necessity turning a loving and trusting look towards our Heavenly Father. It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge ? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.— H. W. BEECHER

I have studied at Barcelona, at Salamanca, at Alcala, at Paris; what have I learned? The language of doubt; but in me there was no harbor for doubt. Jesus came, and my trust in God has grown by the doubts of men.— IGNATIUS LOYOLA

You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow of a suspicion that it will give.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

Upon Thy word I rest, So strong, so sure : So full of comfort blest, So sweet, so pure - The word that changeth not, that faileth never! My King, I rest upon Thy word forever.— F. R. HAVERGAL

Never should we so abandon ourselves to God as when He seems to abandon us. Let us enjoy light and consolation when it is His pleasure to give them to us; but let us not attach ourselves to His gifts, but to Him; and when He plunges us into the night of pure faith, let us still press on through the agonizing darkness. We sleep in peace in the arms of God when we yield ourselves up to His providence, in a delightful consciousness of His tender mercies; no more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in, for it is God who has put us there, and who holds us in His arms. Can we be unsafe where He has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent watches a child? This confiding repose, in which earthly care sleeps, is the true vigilance of the heart; yielding itself up to God, with no other support than Him, it thus watches while we sleep. This is the love of Him that will not sleep even in death.— FENELON

Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

"I am trying to trust," said one to me this past week, who had heard the earth falling on the casket which held the cold form of the dearest human friend, "I am trying to trust," and so. I have seen a bird with a broken wing trying to fly. When the heart is broken, all our trying will only increase our pain and unrest. But if, instead of trying to trust, we will press closer to the Comforter, and lean our weary heads upon His sufficient grace, the trust will come without our trying, and the promised "perfect peace" will calm every troubled wave of sorrow.— A. E. KITTREDGE

Cast thy burden on the Lord, Only lean upon His word; Thou wilt soon have cause to bless His unchanging faithfulness.— ROWLAND HILL

Toward the future let us look calmly, cheerfully, trustfully. The Lord is in it, and if we are His, we need fear no evil. I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brighest day that ever dawned.— C. H. SPURGEON

"Mrs. M., you seem to be very sick." "Yes," said she, "I am dying." "And are you ready to die?" "Sir, God knows I have taken Him at His word, and I am not afraid to die."— ICHABOD SPENCER

Commit yourself then to God! He will be your guide. He Himself will travel with you, as we are told He did with the Israelites, to bring them step by step across the desert to the promised land. Ah! what will be your blessedness, if you will but surrender yourself into the hands of God, permitting Him to do whatever He will, not according to your desires, but according to His own good pleasure? I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.— FENELON

An undivided heart, which worships God alone, and trusts Him as it should, is raised above anxiety for earthly wants.— J. C. GEIKIE

If, like Jacob, you trust God in little things, He may answer you by great things.— J. R. MACDUFF

Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands.— HORACE BUSHNELL

Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change.— JAMES MARTINEAU

Not till we come to a simple reliance on the blood and medi ation of the Saviour, shall we know what it is either to have trust in God, or know what it is to walk before Him without fear, in righteousness and true holiness.— CHALMERS

For us - whatever's undergone, Thou knowest, willest what is done. Grief may be joy misunderstood: Only the Good discerns the good. I trust Thee while my days go on. - -— MRS. E. B. BROWNING

So, whether on the hill-tops high and fair I dwell, or in the sunless valleys where The shadows lie what matter? He is there. And more than this: where'er the pathway lead, He gives to me no helpless, broken reed, But His own hand, sufficient for my need. So, where He leads me, I can safely go, And in the blest hereafter I shall know, Why in His wisdom He hath led me so.