Top 15 John Townsend Trowbridge Quotes

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

…the big picture of our spiritual growth is not an event but the development of the habit of relationship with God.

God wants to help us and will bear our burdens.

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

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.

Some of us have young faith, some broken faith, and some mature faith.

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

…faith in God creates the possibility that even if our situations do not change, life can be good.

We want to know that life is good. Not perfect but good. Not problem free, but good. Good in some way that we did not anticipate. Good in some way that connects us to God, others, and our purposes in life.

What is faith? Faith is trusting God for your problems and for your life.

Hope is impossible unless we experience empathy and identification. We cannot feel hopeful that things will be OK unless someone understands what we are going through and gets it.

I can’t keep count of the times when I have seen how hard times make people much more relationally accessible than they were before their difficulty.

The message of Scripture is that God wants us to connect both with Him and also with each other.

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.

I would not feel a lot of trust or hope in God if He was simply in touch with me without any impetus, power, or force to accomplish things. You may not always know the end game, but He is working for you.