TRUST

 

TRUST

DEFINITION OF TRUST: Assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something.

One in which confidence is placed.

“Do not be afraid, have courage.  Fear belongs only to the despicable and to those that do not trust Him.” (words of a mystic)

 

Excerpts from Divine Mercy in My Soul - Diary of Saint Faustina Kowalska

I am offering peoples a vessel with which they are to keep coming for graces to the fountain of mercy.  That vessel is this image with the signature: “Jesus, I trust in You.”  #327

Oh, how much I am hurt by a soul’s distrust!  Such a soul professes that I am Holy and Just but does not believe that I am Mercy and does not trust in my Goodness. Even the devils glorify My Justice but do not believe in My Goodness.  #300

Everything that exits is enclosed in the bowels of My mercy, more deeply than an infant in its mother’s womb. How painfully distrust of My goodness wounds Me!  How painfully distrust of My goodness wounds Me!  Sins of distrust wound Me most painfully.  #1076

My daughter, I assure you of a permanent income on which you will live.  Your duty will be to trust completely in My goodness, and My duty will be to give you all you need.  I am making Myself dependent upon your trust: if your trust is great, then My generosity will be without limit.

Every time you go to confession, immerse yourself entirely in My mercy with great trust, so that I may pour the bounty of My grace upon your soul. When you approach the confessional, know this, that I myself am waiting there for you.  I am only hidden by the Priest, but I myself act in your soul.  Here the misery of the soul meets the God of mercy.  Tell souls that from this fount of mercy, souls draw graces solely with the vessel of trust.  If their trust is great, there is no limit to My generosity.  #1602

Pray as much as you can for the dying.  By your entreaties, obtain for them trust in My mercy, because they have most need of trust, and have the least.  Be assured that the grace of eternal salvation for certain souls in their final moment depend on your prayer.  You know the whole abyss of My mercy, so draw upon it for yourself and especially for poor sinners.  Sooner would heaven and earth turn into nothingness than would My mercy not embrace a trusting soul.  #1777

Tell (all people) My daughter, that I am Love and Mercy itself.  When a soul approaches Me with trust, I myself  fill it with such an abundance of graces that it cannot contain them within itself, but radiates them to other souls.  #1074

I have opened My Heart as a living fountain of mercy.  Let all souls draw life from it.  Let them approach this sea of mercy with great trust.  Sinners will attain justification, and the just will be confirmed in good.  Whoever places his trust in My mercy will be filled with My divine peace at the hour of death.  #1520

My daughter, your confidence and love restrain My justice, and I cannot inflict punishment because you hinder Me from doing so.  Oh, how great is the power of a soul filled with confidence!  #198

My mercy is greater than your sins and those of the entire world.  Who can measure the extent of my goodness?  For you I descended from heaven to earth; for you I allowed myself to be nailed to the cross; for you I let my Sacred Heart be pierced with a lance, thus opening wide the source of mercy for you.  Come, then, with trust to draw graces from this fountain.  I never reject a contrite heart.  #1485

Soul: But fear fills me at the thought of my sins, and this terrible fear moves me to doubt Your goodness.  Jesus: My child, all your sins have not wounded My Heart as painfully as your present lack of trust does- that after so many efforts of My love and mercy, you should still doubt My goodness. #1486

Let souls who are striving for perfection particularly adore My mercy, because the abundance of graces which I grant them flows from My mercy.  I desire that these souls distinguish themselves by boundless trust in My mercy.  I myself will attend to the sanctification of such souls.  I will provide them with everything they will need to attain sanctity. The graces of My mercy are drawn by means of one vessel only, and that is – trust.  The more a soul trusts, the more it will receive.  Souls that trust boundlessly are a great comfort to Me, because I pour all the treasures of My graces into them. I rejoice that they ask for much, because it is MY desire to give much, very much.  On the other hand, I am sad when souls ask for little, when they narrow their hearts. #1578

Prayer:   O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us, I trust in You!  #84

 

Excerpts from the Book of Heaven, Servant of God, Luisa Piccarreta

“Your trust must be only in Me. Be resigned, because resignation renders the soul radiant, and it keeps all other passions in their place, in such a way that, attracted by those rays of light, I go into that soul and I transform her completely within Me, and I make her live from my own Life.”

“My daughter, do you want to know where the evil of man began? The beginning of it is that as soon as he knows himself - that is, as soon as he begins to acquire reason – man says to himself: ‘I am something.’ And believing themselves to be something, they move away from Me, they do not trust Me, who am the All, and they draw all their confidence and strength from themselves. From this it happens that they even lose every good beginning, and by losing the good beginning, what will the end be? Imagine, yourself, my daughter. Moreover, by moving away from Me, who contain every good, what good can man hope for, since he is a sea of evil? Without Me everything is corruption, misery, and without a shadow of true good. This is the present society.”   July 16, 1901

 Daughter, faith makes one know God, but trust makes one find Him. So, without trust, faith is sterile, and even though faith possesses immense riches with which the soul can enrich herself, if there is no trust she remains always poor and lacking in everything.”

“Everything is in the soul’s distrust and fear of herself, and in her trust and confidence in God.”

“My daughter, if one fears much, it is a sign that she relies much on herself, because in noticing nothing but weaknesses and miseries within herself, she naturally and justly fears. On the other hand, if one fears nothing, it is a sign that she relies on God, because by relying on God, her miseries and weaknesses are dissolved in God, and as she feels invested by the Divine Being, it is no longer she who operates, but God within her. So, what can she fear? Therefore, true trust reproduces Divine Life in the soul.”