Richard Foster Quotes

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

The American people want to have trust in their leaders.

Building trust is very important.

If I trust the people I work with, then I deliver my part with complete trust.

Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.

They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.

Of course parents want their children to confide in them.

If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

The Lord gives us a spirit of hope and a feeling of comfort and confidence that we can overcome the obstacles we face. He has shown the way to gain strength during our struggles. With His assistance, we have the ability to succeed. Listen to His words of counsel and comfort: 'Fear not, little children, for you are mine, and I have overcome the world and none of them that my Father hath given me shall be lost.

There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him.

It's important to be honest with and respectful of each other and deal with issues as they arrive, as opposed to letting them simmer.

My father believed in me many times more than I believed in myself.

I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world.

Trust happens when leaders are transparent.

I think the best thing to try to do is allow your daughter or your son to know that they can come to you for anything. If you can break down that wall so they don't feel embarrassed by telling you things, that's half the battle.

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.

People become trustworthy when they are trusted.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou hast said.' The Heavenly Father will not break His Word to His own child.

The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.

A husband should tell his wife everything that he is sure she will find out, and before anyone else does.

We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.

Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.

I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.