Quotes
Quotes about Distrust
And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy,
The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.
Silence is the best resolve for him who distrusts himself.
It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672 Devotional poetry... has to do with devotedness, with trust merged into faith, with love's steadfastness. It finds men's worthwhileness deep laid in relationship to God's worthwhileness, and this devotion is expressed in communication. It finds this world precious insofar as it... symbolizes God's love and therefore it runs counter to our national sin of distrust in God. (And yet, how can we trust Him without knowing and living unto Him and loving Him?).
Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107 There is a false self-distrust which denies the worth of its own talent. It is not humilityâit is petty pride, withholding its simple gifts from the hands of Christ because they are not more pretentious. There are men who would endow colleges, they say, if they were millionaires. They would help in the work of Bible study if they were as gifted as Henry Drummond. They would strive to lead their associates into the Christian life if they had the gifts of Dwight L. Moody. But they are not ready to give what they have and do what they can and be as it has pleased God to make them, in His serviceâand that is their condemnation.
A usurper always distrusts the whole world. [It., Usurpator diffida Di tutti sempre.]
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
On one issue at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn." Ropo Oguntimehin Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave. -T.H. White.
And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
He got a corporation mind. He doesn't believe in nature; he puts his trust and distrust in man.
Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.
