Inspirational Quotes & Stories about Trusting
God
Why is it that we
have more faith that the pieces of a puzzle made by a company in Taiwan
will all fit together than we have that the pieces of our life that are
presented to us by God will fit together? One person chooses to put like
pieces together first, while another chooses to put the edges of the
puzzle together first, but neither individual ever really doubts that
the puzzle will somehow fit perfectly. The edges in and of themselves
probably have little to do with the main image or idea of the puzzle,
yet without it, the puzzle is incomplete. In fact, although these pieces
appear to have little to do with the main idea or image, they are
nonetheless as important to the puzzle's completion. In the beginning
some pieces, even when they fit perfectly together, might not help you
to understand what the puzzle is about; only in its completion can you
appreciate the parts that at first seemed insignificant and pointless.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 55
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I graduated with an
MBA from The University of Notre Dame, and asked myself, "What's next?"
I had studied enough spiritual material to understand, and more
important, believe in my heart, that there is no such thing as a
coincidence. I knew that a company that had been in my family for over
50 years could not be sold without my knowledge, in the middle of my MBA
program, by coincidence. I laughed for a while, and told God that this
definitely was one of His best jokes and that He really got me on this
one.
In a deeper manner,
I understood, and was grateful that He had freed me. He was offering me
a respectable way out. He understood that I probably did not have the
strength to deny my Latino mother and grandmother the joy of knowing
that I was working in the family business. It would have hurt my mother
and grandmother deeply if I did not pursue that line of work, and for
that reason only, I would have stayed in the business regardless of any
real sense of belonging there. God had taken the pressure off me. And
for that, I was grateful.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 90
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Do you trust God?
If you were asked this question, your immediate response would probably
be, "Yes, I do trust God." If you were also asked: Do you ever worry?
Your answer would probably be, "Yes, I worry sometimes." My friend, let
me say that if you truly trust God, then you would never worry. If you
choose to worry in any situation then know that you are not fully
trusting in God.
Trust God or worry.
Those are the two choices you have in every situation. Trust God and be
at peace. Worry and experience stress. Your choices are that simple and
you will make your life as peaceful or stressful as you choose to make
it. Trust God and be at peace. This is all that is asked of you. Yet,
over and over again, you choose worry over trust, and make your life a
living hell.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 128
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"And remember,
there are two things that are more utterly incompatible than even oil
and water, and these two are trust and worry. Would you call it trust if
you should give something into the hands of a friend to attend for you
and then spend your nights and days in anxious thought and worry as to
whether it would be rightly and successfully done? And can you call it
trust, when you have given the saving and keeping of your soul into the
hands of the Lord, if day after day, and night after night you are
spending hours of anxious thought and questionings about the matter?
When a believer really trusts anything, he ceases to worry about that
thing which he has trusted. And when he worries, it is plain proof that
he does not trust."
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Hannah Whitehall
Smith,
The
Christian's Secret of a Happy Life
Cited in You Have Chosen to Remember, p. 128-129
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"You find no
difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe, and
all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or
difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His
management of you? Away with such unworthy doubting! Take your stand on
the power and trustworthiness of your God, and see how quickly all
difficulties will vanish before a steadfast determination to believe.
Trust in the dark, trust in the light, trust at night and trust in the
morning, and you will find that the faith which may begin by mighty
effort, will end sooner or later by becoming the easy and natural habit
of the soul."
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Hannah
Whitehall Smith,
The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life
Cited in You Have Chosen to Remember, p.147
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Knowledge that the perfection of the present moment is available to
everyone all the time will fill your heart with an overflowing sense of
gratitude and joy that even the most blind will see. Your heart will
burst with rainbow-colored love that will touch everyone, and the
judgment of your brother and sister will all but dissolve in its light.
Your simple willingness to put judgment aside will result in the
complete love of God flowing through your soul and not one cell in your
body will be left untouched by His gratitude and love. You have dammed a
free flowing river, and as a result, you have not felt God's complete
gratitude and love flowing through you. But by trusting the present
moment, you are once again putting your trust in God. Once you have done
so, thousands of illusionary bricks will fall, again letting the river
flow free. The river will overflow its banks, and you too will overflow
with God's gratitude and love. As the banks of a flooding river cannot
contain its waters, your ego-self will not be able to prevent your
Godself from extending and offering all that has been extended and
offered to you. As you extend this love to your brothers and sisters,
your gratitude and love toward them will grow, for as you extend love so
too will you experience it, its fullness, beauty and purity. Simply put
judgment aside and allow the present moment to be. If you do this, all
your brother or sister's colors, races, religions, beliefs, actions and
reactions will melt into a pot of gratitude and love so fulfilling that
peace of mind and joy will forever overwhelm your heart and life.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 186-187
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You might try to
dim the light of your perfection, yet light surrounds you always, for I
Am the Light, as you are My light. You might choose on occasion to
forget Me, but I know that forgetting is your way of remembering better.
You might choose on occasion to love Me not, but I sit with you in
everlasting patience and envelop you with love, as I Am enveloped by
love.
Choose not to see Me with your eyes, or hear Me with your ears, for who
I Am is who you are, and nothing else can surround All That Is. Be never
lonely, my brother, and search never for Me in things, for things were
not made by you or Me. Search not for happiness and love in that which
you can touch with your hands or taste with your tongue, for you have
already tried that, and where has that gotten you? Search not for me
outside yourself, for I Am in you, and I Am you. In times of insanity
when illusions surround you, offer me an instant and sit in the power of
your silence and understand that I Am all that you need and that you are
all that completes Me, for as you hold a place in my heart, so too do I
live in yours.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 219
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You see, in the
darkest moment that any human could experience, father made me smile and
think of heaven. In the darkest moment in my life, when not a drop of
sanity was left in my mind, when not a drop of love was left in my
heart, father showed me heaven. He had, in that one act, expressed to me
that I could see heaven in any action. Regardless of the physical
appearance of that action, I could see it as heaven sent. In a moment's
time, I learned that God was in every action, that God was in each
expression, that God was in each word, and that God was in each man. I
learned that even in the scariest of moments you can see and experience
God. Regardless of whether or not you thought you were in hell, you can
still choose to see and experience heaven. Regardless of whether or not
you saw your best friend blown away, you can still see God and the
kindness of all men in one smile.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 222
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In any difficult
situation, ask God with all your heart to let you experience Him and He
will. You will experience Him not because He is letting you do so, but
because you are allowing yourself to experience Him. You do not need His
permission to experience Him. You will experience God, because when you
so desire, you are shifting your focus from an illusionary state (a
difficult situation) to the truth (God). Allowing yourself to experience
this in one difficult situation will open your mind to the possibility
that you can experience God in all difficult situations. Experiencing
God in a difficult situation will turn the difficult situation into a
wonderful opportunity and gift. During the difficult situation, try to
focus on God and His absolute love for you. Allow yourself to feel this
absolute love. Let it flow through your body. Let it touch your heart.
Realize that God is not there because it is a difficult situation, but
that God is there because He has always been there. You see it as a
difficult situation, but God sees only your growth. In the moment, focus
on fear, or focus on God's love for you. You have free will and it is
your choice to make. In the moment you can focus on one or the other but
not both. The choice is yours. Choosing fear will offer you anxiety,
stress, confusion, pain and regret. Choosing love will offer you peace
of mind and joy. Choose as you will.
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James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey From
Perception to Knowledge, Peace of Mind and Joy, p. 240-241
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Hannah Whitehall Smith, The Christian's Secrets of a Happy Life, Copyright 1999 (Baker Book
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