M-A-D Prison Ministry

“Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.” 
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

 

“You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too--even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.” 

― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

 

“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.” 
― Doris Lessing

 

“I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.” 
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

 

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” 
― George MacDonald

 

“For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.” 
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

 

“It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers.” 
― Gordon B. Hinckley

 

“Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You will say to your partner: do you really love me? Are you sure you love me? You will ask this a dozen times and drive the person nuts. But you never ask: are you really mad at me? Are you sure you’re angry? When someone is angry, you don’t doubt it for a moment. Yet the reverse should be true. We should doubt the negative in life, and have faith in the positive.” 
― Christopher Pike, Remember Me

 

“We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.” 
― Alison Croggon

 

“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust.” 
― David Levithan, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

 

“The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' 
Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.” 
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

 

“Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.” 
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible

 

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.” 
― Oscar Wilde

 

“In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.” 
― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic & Baby

 

“But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.” 
― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

 

“You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry.
"No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.” 
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

 

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series

 

“Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.” 
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

 

“Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.” 
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

 

“Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.” 
― Julianne Moore

 

“According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous. (quoted by Carol Lynn Pearson in Consider the Butterfly)” 
― Deepak Chopra, Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles

 

“Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active. Love is not just feelings of passion and romance. It is behavior. If a man lies to you, he is behaving badly and unlovingly toward you. He is disrespecting you and your relationship. The words “I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don’t kid yourself that they are.” 
― Susan Forward, When Your Lover Is a Liar: Healing the Wounds of Deception and Betrayal

 

“She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can’t believe her, even if I could believe her.” 
― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

 

“I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.” 
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

 

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” 
― Abraham Lincoln

 

“I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.” 
― Stanley Baldwin

 

“After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.” 
― Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies

 

“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.” 
― Abraham Lincoln

 

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love:

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” 
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

 

“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.” 
― Alan W. Watts

 

“Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.” 
― Wm. Paul Young

 

“Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; 
Be true to your word and your work and your friend; 
Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.” 
― John Boyle O'Reilly, Life of John Boyle O'Reilly

 

“Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.” 
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

 

“Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.” 
― C.S. Lewis, The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume lll: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy 1950-1963

 

“Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting.” 

― Carolyn McCulley

 

“Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.” 

― Maria V. Snyder, Poison Study

 

“We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.” 
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

 

“You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.” 
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

 

“Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” 
― Stephen R. Covey