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It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces ...

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BonoBono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas

I trust you with their lives,' Prof said, still writing, 'and them with yours. Don't betray that tru...

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That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.

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Brandon SandersonThe Final Empire

You trusted me enough to jump off the wall, and I caught you.

I can't worry about everything at once, Elend thought with determination. I just have to trust. Trus...

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Brandon SandersonThe Hero of Ages

That's what trust is. It's about giving someone else power over you. Power to hurt you.

What kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been ...

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Brandon SandersonThe Hero of Ages

Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?""I consider their...

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In a way, she'd rather trust him and be wrong than deal with the worry of mistrust.

My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is...

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The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - ...

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Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.

The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some pre...

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Brennan ManningRuthless Trust: The Ragamuffin's Path to God

For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and rec...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will tr...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and defin...

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We can't pack down hurt, nor can we off-load it to someone else while maintaining our authenticity a...

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Talk to ourselves in the same way we'd talk to someone we'd love. Yes, you made a mistake. You're hu...

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She said that you--" "I don't care what she said." I stand up. "Everyone lies." "Hey," he says softl...

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I do not think there is a demonstrative proof (like Euclid) of Christianity, nor of the existence of...

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The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is t...

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Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it serio...

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Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question...

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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of...

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Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be pa...

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C. S. LewisThe Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis

Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.

When I was at school one would have said, 'I swear by the Bible.' But Bibles were not encouraged at ...

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In the end, it's only a story of having had her words and secrets, her confidences, turned against h...

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Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you s...

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Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Shadow of the Wind

Never trust he who trusts everyone.

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Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Shadow of the Wind

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest fo...

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Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Shadow of the Wind

You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.

Your trusting idiocy knows no bounds

Jordan leaned on the counter. He felt a little like a bartender in a TV show, dispensing sage advice...

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Trust. It is like placing a blade in someone's hand and setting the very point to your heart.

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Cassandra ClareThe Bane Chronicles

The only way that we can protect each other is if we are together. If we face things together. If we...

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Cassandra ClareCity of Lost Souls

The Scholomance was a piece of Shadowhunter history come to life. A cold castle of towers and corrid...

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I don’t know,” Mark said, looking down at his own long pale fingers tangled in the little boy’s brow...

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"It was as true " said Mr. Barkis ... "as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them."

Woodcourt: “Miss Summerson,” said Mr. Woodcourt, “if without obtruding myself on your confidence I m...

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His was not a lazy trustfulness that hoped, and did no more.

I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick being the right sort of man to fill a post of t...

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The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual res...

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But if I could just get som ehint, some sign..." Conchita smiles, without humor, but with great affe...

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Charles de LintThe Mystery of Grace

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

They may fight with us, but they don't fight for us.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.

If you can't trust, you can't be trustworthy.

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Craig FergusonBetween the Bridge and the River

You've never really know what it's like to trust God to provide for you today, because you've got to...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betra...

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It will be a very long time before I trust you ever, ever - OK, I trust you again.

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Daniel HandlerWhy We Broke Up

The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entru...

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The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eye...

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And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means you...

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David Foster WallaceBrief Interviews with Hideous Men

Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray yo...

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I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But thes...

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Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It's as true as any compass.

I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've alw...

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No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like ...

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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prude...

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I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I noticed before that to sleep, actually sl...

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I had not slept with many men other than my husband, but I noticed before that to sleep, actually sl...

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People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.

From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched ...

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The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is alwa...

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you want to knowwhether i believe in ghostsof course i do not believe in themif you had knownas many...

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Don MarquisArchy and Mehitabel

Fragments are the only forms I trust.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a ...

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I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out indepen...

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Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddh...

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DōgenBeyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

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Edith HamiltonMythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative...

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No one would argue that it's in the United States' interest to have independent knowledge of the pla...

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In the beginning there was faith-which is childish; trust-which is vain; and illusion-which is dange...

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We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrus...

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A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly — better than always doubting and doubtin...

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The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted ...

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In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic e...

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And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust...

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Strict TimeThere's a hand on a wire that leads to my mouth I can hear you knocking but I'm not comin...

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Bad lovers face to face in the morning Shy apologies and polite regrets Slow dances that left no war...

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Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies

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

In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust an...

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Absolute trust in the reality of things begins to be shaken as the problem of truth enters upon the ...

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Ernst CassirerThe Philosophy of Symbolic Forms 3: The Phenomenology of Knowledge

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trus...

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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trus...

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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trus...

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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trus...

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We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying...

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Frank HerbertThe Dosadi Experiment

My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting,...

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Frank O'HaraMeditations in an Emergency

France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States wh...

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Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When ...

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I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

All great truths began as blasphemies.