Rust Quotes - Page 3

Trust in God - she will provide.

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.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.

Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.

Never trust a dog to watch your food.

A single word that can be offensive to someone is a horrible thing for anyone who has iman. In other words, filthy language out of your mouth and faith inside your heart cannot coexist. You cannot have iman in your heart and ugly words come out of your mouth. If you have no control over whatever four letter words you keep using every time you get frustrated, there's a spiritual problem, it's not just a habit problem. How can you use a terrible word for anyone who has iman?

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

If you entrust God with your 'here,' He will take you 'there.' If you give Him your 'now,' He will take care of 'then.'

Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.

With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.

The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.