"Maybe you cannot thrive where you are untouchable… Soul growth only happens in the soil of vulnerability. Maybe it’s time to let yourself be touched." 

~ Ann Voskamp (www.aholyexperience.com)

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be." 

— C.S. Lewis

"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with the roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work, but the solidest thing we know." 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. 

~ Ernest Hemingway

"But we cannot learn to trust God by our interpretations of past experiences. More often than not we were looking out for our interests, and not God's; thus we misinterpret or misunderstand his actions toward us. There are many reasons why God may not have dealt with a specific situation as we thought he should, but the Bible makes it clear that he never responds to us with less than absolute love and faithfulness. That's his nature, and he can never be untrue to it. Learning dependence doesn't begin in our experience, but in his character."

~ Wayne Jacobsen
The Naked Church

"Trust is grown primarily through repair of its violation."

~ Dan B. Allender & Tremper Longman III

Intimate Mystery

“You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him not because you have studied him – you will love him because you have touched him.”

~ Brennan Manning in Lion & Lamb