Two is enough for a secret.
— Agatha Christie
Friendship
It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.
Can you by humble faith look to Jesus and say: "My substitute, my refuge, ray shield; Thou art my rock, my trust; in Thee do I confide? "Then, beloved, to you I have nothing to say, except this: " Never be afraid when you see God's power; for now that you are forgiven and accepted, now that by faith you have fled to Christ for refuge, the power of God need no more terrify you than the shield and sword of the warrior need terrify his wife and child."
I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.
I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
— Charlotte Brontë
Friendship
I think there has to be a trust. There actually has to be a trust. If you don't trust, you're not going to do very well.
The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.
The greatest trust, between man and man, is the trust of giving counsel. For in other confidences, men commit the parts of life; their lands, their goods, their children, their credit, some particular affair; but to such as they make their counsellors, they commit the whole: by how much the more, they are obliged to all faith and integrity.
— Francis Bacon
Friendship
Those who trust us educate us.