Personal Development on Mistrust

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Rowan Williams
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The skills have been lost of being present for and in another, and what remains is mistrust and violence.
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William Shakespeare
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Proverbs 28:1, Genesis 3:10, Isaiah 57:20, Isaiah 48:22
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
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Break Our Hearts
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Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia
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Ezekiel 36:24-28, Psalm 51:1-17, Jeremiah 31:31-34
Break our hearts, Jesus That we may weep as You weep Love as You love Break our hearts Jesus and raise our voices that we may speak and act so all may be safe so all may have opportunity so all may k...
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We praise and thank you, O Lord, that
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Psalm 119:103, Luke 22:19, Psalm 34:18, 1 Timothy 2:1-2, Matthew 28:19-20, John 14:16-17, Matthew 6:9-13, Numbers 6:24-26, Matthew 25:36, Psalm 33:12, Romans 8:26, Acts 1:8, 2 Corinthians 5:18-20, Acts 2:42
We praise and thank you, O Lord, that you have fed us with your Word [and at your table]. Grateful for your gifts and mindful of the communion of your saints, we offer to you our prayers for all pe...
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Albert Schweitzer
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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
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E. M. Bounds
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- Risks
- Firm Belief
Trust is faith that has become absolute, approved, and accomplished. When all is said and done, there is a sort of risk in faith and its exercise. But trust is firm belief; it is faith in full bloom. ...
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William Shakespeare
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- Courage
- Doubts
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
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Richard Plass and James Cofield
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The primary factor that determines the pattern a child will land on is trust. Trust is born and nurtured in the infant through the consistent and reliable care of the primary caregivers. Trust is the ...
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Mike Fisher
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Sometimes trust takes time. We all love to be in control, but when you start to give some of that up, it's freeing. Start with some of the little things. Give those things up to the Lord.
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Philip Sheldrake
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- Desire
- Rationality
Part of the suspicion of desire undoubtedly has to do precisely with the fact that it threatens a rational, controlled, and protected understanding of a mature human being.
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Watchman Nee
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The sight of any trouble strikes terror into the heart of those who do not have faith, but those who trust Him say, "Here comes my food!"
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Daniel Kahneman
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Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the...
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Stephen M. R. Covey
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- Trust
- Confidence
The beauty of trust is that it erases worry and frees you to get on with other matters. Trust means confidence.
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John Mark Comer
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- Control
The opposite of faith isn't doubt; it's certainty and control.
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Corrie Ten Boom
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Psalm 46:10, Hebrews 13:8, Philippians 4:6-7, Romans 8:28, Psalm 37:5
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
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Paul Martinelli
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- Fear
- Insecurity
All fear stems from either ‘I am not enough’ or ‘I don’t have enough.’
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A Mighty Wind
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Barbara Melosh
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- Fear
- Destructive Behavior
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Hebrews 13:6, 2 Timothy 1:7, Romans 8:15, John 14:27, Psalm 27:1, Isaiah 41:10
Fear is a “mighty wind” indeed. The wreckage left by the toxic wind of fear is evident everywhere. We are afraid of the unknown, afraid of one another, afraid of poor health, afraid of death, and afra...
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Helen Keller
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- Risks
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
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Marilynne Robinson
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- Fear
To value one another is our greatest safety, and to indulge in fear and contempt is our gravest error.
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Blaise Pascal
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There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines...
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Simon Sinek
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- Trust
- Telling the Truth
Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.
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Gracious, patient God, too often we
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Austin D. Hill
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Gracious, patient God, too often we don’t trust you. We don’t trust you enough to be honest with you, to share our doubts with you, or to be real with other people about our struggles. Lord, please he...
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Tolerating Absence Means Trusting Presence
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David G. Benner
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- Presence
Tolerating absence is, in essence, trusting presence—even when the one who is present to us is not physically present. Think of the two-year-old gradually loosening his clinging grasp to the leg of hi...
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Henry Ward Beecher
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- Fear
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Frederick Buechner
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Faith is a way of waiting—never quite knowing, never quite hearing or seeing, because in the darkness we are all but a little lost. There is doubt hard on the heels of every belief, fear hard on the h...
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Gracious God, we come before you with
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Laura B. Murray
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2 Timothy 1:7, 1 John 4:18, Matthew 5:44, Ephesians 4:31-32, 1 Corinthians 16:14, Galatians 5:22-23, Colossians 3:12-14
Gracious God, we come before you with humility, recognizing that doubt has led our decisions. We have allowed fear to lead, rather than love. Because of this, we have been unkind to our families, our ...
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Lord, forgive us for the times when we
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Austin D. Hill
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Lord, forgive us for the times when we have chosen safety and comfort over fidelity to you. For the times when following you requires us to stretch, grow, and be challenged, give us courage. Renew our...
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Parker J. Palmer
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- Maturity
The deeper our faith, the more doubt we must endure; the deeper our hope, the more prone we are to despair; the deeper our love, the more pain its loss will bring: these are a few of the paradoxes we ...
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“Sliding Door” Moments
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John Gottman
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- Trust
- Defining Moments
What I’ve found through research is that trust is built in very small moments, which I call “sliding door” moments, after the movie Sliding Doors. In any interaction, there is a possibility of connect...
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Turning Worry into Trust
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Phillip Cary
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Do not be anxious about anything,” says Scripture (Phil. 4:6). The problem is: this makes us anxious! We have enough things to be anxious about already in life, and now we have to worry in addition ab...