The sad pattern of lack of trust in God has persisted since the Creation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.
God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.
If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him; and hence failure arises.
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.
I just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all.
I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
Too often today, we do not rely on faith so much as on our own ability to reason and solve problems.
In these times, God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul.