John Townsend Trowbridge Quotes

We must exercise faith. We don’t pretend we’re fine. We don’t deny it. But we trust in Him.

I have noticed in this economic downturn that more of my friends talk about God…

Where do you go when hard times hit? Most of the time, our tendency is to enter our internal cave…we naturally shut down, withdraw from it all, and try to figure things out on our own, reemerging from life when we have some sense of centeredness.

Faith grows when we assume the position of one who can’t do it all by himself. That means we go to God, follow Him, and ask Him for help.

Open your heart and your sad feelings to Him and the safe people He brings to you.

If you will observe, it doesn’t take
A man of giant mould to make
A giant shadow on the wall;
And he who in our daily sight
Seems but a figure mean and small,
Outlined in Fame’s illusive light,
May stalk, a silhouette sublime,
Across the canvas of his time.

Our days, our deeds, all we achieve or are,
Lay folded in our infancy; the things
Of good or ill we choose while yet unborn.

It is a comfort to us that Jesus didn’t suffer in silence or with a smile.

Darius was clearly of the opinion
That the air is also man’s dominion,
And that, with paddle or fin or pinion,
We soon or late
Shall navigate
The azure, as now we sail the sea.

The essence of grace is that God is for you.

Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive,
The blessing lies.

…the central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.

He has always been here, and He is here now. He loves you and is working actively for your good in His own way.

David, the man after God’s own heart, got right to it and spilled out his guts about his experience: “How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever?”

“Where are You?” can be both a protest against a problem and a search for understanding and perspective.