"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps it's brain?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

"Inigo: I donna suppose you could speed things up?

Westley: If you're in such a hurry, you could lower a rope or a tree branch or find something useful to do.

Inigo: I could do that. I have some rope up here, but I do not think you would accept my help, since I am only waiting around to kill you.

Westley: That does put a damper on our relationship."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything."
— Oscar Wilde

"I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."
— Corrie Ten Boom

"'The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?'
'Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.' "
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"Know that love is truly timeless."
— Mary M. Ricksen

"Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved."
— William P. Young

"If our testimonies are strong onthis point and if we feel the absolute assurance that God loves us, we will change our questons. We won't ask, 'Why did this happen?' or 'Why doesn't God care about me?' Instead, our questions will become, 'What can I learn from this experience?' or 'How does the Lord want me to handle this?'"
— John Bytheway (When Times Are Tough: 5 Scriptures That Will Help You Get Through Almost Anything)

"When the world says, “Give up” Hope whispers, “Give it one more try

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— Carolyn Agrimis

"My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up."
— Frank O'Hara (Meditations in an Emergency)

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
— George MacDonald

"Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it."
— C.S. Lewis (The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963)

"After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person."
— Evelyn Waugh (Vile Bodies)

"The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song."
— Psalm 28:7

"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
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— Napoleon Bonaparte

"If you are untrustworthy, people will not trust you."
— Laozi

"I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons"
— Adrienne Rich

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

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— Elizabeth Gilbert

"Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit."
— Timothy Zahn (Vision of the Future)

"I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.'
'What's that?'
'I...trust you.'
'Why?'
'You'll never hurt me.'
'Thank you.'
'But...'
'But, what?'
I said, 'That means I'll hurt you.'
'Why?'
' 'Cause, like I said, you'll never hurt me back.'"
— Avi (What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything?)

"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."
— Aesop

"A king who trusts no man is weak."
— Patricia Briggs (Dragon Blood)

"Well, maybe you won't get hurt, but huff-puff, you won't get loved either."
— Wolf from The 10th Kingdom

" 16-18"This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person's failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him. "
— John 3:16-18, the Bible (The Message Version)

"I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides. Not being men, these women don't know that in looking back on those he has had tender relations with, a man's heart returns closest to her who was the soul of truth in her conduct. The better class of man, even if caught by airy affectations of dodging and parrying, is not retained by them. A Nemesis attends the woman who plays the game of elusiveness too often, in the utter contempt for her that, sooner or later, her old admirers feel; under which they allow her to go unlamented to her grave."
— Thomas Hardy

"Responsibility and Trust -- these two are like Yin and Yang, together perfectly complete, and each one requiring the presence of the other.

The next time you mistrust someone, consider this -- does that person feel responsible for you in any way? If the answer is yes, then go ahead and trust them. Very likely, they are looking out for your best interest. "
— Vera Nazarian

"The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and his promise."
— Brennan Manning (Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin's Path to God)

"For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends."
— Aeschylus (Prometheus Bound)

"Men of genius are admired, me of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted."
— Alfred Alder

"Trust everybody, but always cut the cards."
— Finley Peter Dunne

"According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous. (quoted by Carol Lynn Pearson in Consider the Butterfly)"
— Deepak Chopra (Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the infinite power of coincidence to create miracles)

"Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place `the world would be!"
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

"Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you."
— Scarlett Thomas (PopCo)

"Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything."
— Laurence Sterne

"Whenever conscience speaks with a divided uncertain and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity"
— Henri F. Amiel

"We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens."
— Terry Tempest Williams (Pieces of White Shell)

"For an instant she hesitated. Baldanders said, 'You may trust him. The doctor has his own way of looking at the world, but he lies less than people believe.'"
— Gene Wolfe (Shadow & Claw)

"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.