Trusting FOr Today Or The Future?

"It is generally much less difficult for us to commit the keeping of our future to the Lord than it is to commit our present."

- Hannah Whitall Smith 

The Burden Of Proof Is Always Mine

"...the burden of proof is always mine, because i am the one who wants to know. 

I'm not in this discussion to put you back on your heals. I'm here to determine the truth, and the burden of proof is mine. I'm not trying to win an argument. 

I think it is one of the most important things especially for christians to understand. They're  not here to try and duck and dodge. If you can find a better way than what Jesus Christ  offers, he would be the first person to tell you to take it. If you don't  believe that about him,  you can't be his disciple becuse you could never trust him. "

- Dallas Willard. 

God Didn't Trust Me

"God didn't trust me with with complicated theological systems."

-Tony Kriz. Aloof

No Deceptive Looks

"Let the world despise and leave me;
They have left my Savior, too.
Human hearts and looks deceive me;
Thou art not, like those, untrue.

~ Hymn "Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken Henry F. Lyte

Loaded Gospel Ship

"Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity!”
~ Bonhoeffer

Religion Denys People - Trusting Outside Authority

"The most unfortunate thing about the concept of mysticism is that the word itself has become mystified and relegated to a “misty” and distant realm that implies it is only available to a very few. For me, the word simply means experiential knowledge of spiritual things, as opposed to book knowledge, secondhand knowledge, seminary or church knowledge.

Most of organized religion has actually discouraged us from taking the mystical path by telling us almost exclusively to trust outer authority (Scripture, Tradition, or various kinds of experts) instead of telling us the value and importance of inner experience itself. In fact, most of us were strongly warned against ever trusting ourselves. Roman Catholics were told to trust the church hierarchy first and last, while Protestants were often warned that inner experience was dangerous, unscriptural, or even unnecessary. "

~ Richard Rohr. Daily Meditation. Jan 25, 2017

Can't Trust You Because I Can't Trust Me

"People accuse me of all kinds of things, both wonderful and terrible. They’re usually half-right, of course. But invariably, they’re talking about themselves, and they can’t see it. This principle of likeness has positive and negative manifestations— what you see over there is what you are in here. Always. Mistrustful people don’t know how to trust themselves or anybody else, and so they lay it on you."

~Richard Rohr. The Divine Dance

Trust..... Bust

"There is no respect between the souls of two individuals if their minds can’t trust each other and there is no trust between them if their hearts can’t accept the truth of each other."
Anuj Somany

Scripture to Precious to Be Left To Biblical scholars

"Sacred scripture is too important to be left exclusively to biblical scholars. Theology is too vital to be consigned solely to the province of theologians. To explore the depths of the God who invites our trust, we need the artists and mystics."

(Brennan Manning. Ruthless Trust.)

Wanting It To Be Something Other Than What It Is

"God has a way to nudge you into life.....To know this, God is at work in the world, He's at work in your life. If you don't see it right now, it's not because he is not doing it, it's because you want it to be something other than it is. And If you relax into this, and let it be what it is, he will lead you into a bigger space than you ever dreamed of, or would ever find on your own. "

 (Wayne Jacobsen​ The God Journey​ Podcast, April 17, 2005))