A wonderful topic and so many good posts and points related thereto. To take the ‘trust’ point further, I would submit that whatever its source (and many good quotes and opinions here on that), undying hope leads to striving – the expression of our own efforts to realize hope’s promise. I think striving, or to strive, is the expression of faith. Faith is an action. Faith + trust is to strive. It is in the striving that we face uncertainty-in-the-moments of choice but with confidence in ultimate outcomes for all choices/decisions made by faith and trust.
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Me: Uncertainty and disappointment are more easily faced with hope, trust, and faith in that and whom are greater than ourselves.
16:7.5 [Part I]
When man fails to discriminate the ends of his mortal striving, he finds himself functioning on the animal level of existence. He has failed to avail himself of the superior advantages of that material acumen, moral discrimination, and spiritual insight which are an integral part of his cosmic-mind endowment as a personal being.
Me: The striving for perfection is an inherent universe reality that appears to go even beyond personality, although personality is required to appreciate, focus, and integrate this yearning and striving into experience and wisdom.
65:6.2 [Part III]
There is original endowment of adaptation in living things and beings. In every living plant or animal cell, in every living organism — material or spiritual — there is an insatiable craving for the attainment of ever-increasing perfection of environmental adjustment, organismal adaptation, and augmented life realization. These interminable efforts of all living things evidence the existence within them of an innate striving for perfection.
Me: Isn’t hope a personal reflection of ideals? Don’t we hope FOR something that we believe ourselves and others are currently lacking or needing to achieve some form of ideal? Can one hope without ideals to lead such hope into prayer, motivation, purpose, intention, priority, and strategy in our philosophy for our daily walk?
103:5.7 [Part III]
The pursuit of the ideal — the striving to be Godlike — is a continuous effort before death and after. The life after death is no different in the essentials than the mortal existence. Everything we do in this life which is good contributes directly to the enhancement of the future life. Real religion does not foster moral indolence and spiritual laziness by encouraging the vain hope of having all the virtues of a noble character bestowed upon one as a result of passing through the portals of natural death. True religion does not belittle man’s efforts to progress during the mortal lease on life. Every mortal gain is a direct contribution to the enrichment of the first stages of the immortal survival experience.
Me: I wonder if trust and hope and faith demonstrate a humility – of one’s smallness and youthfulness and dependence in regard to the whole and God within?
137:8.8 [Part IV]
“Those who first seek to enter the kingdom, thus beginning to strive for a nobility of character like that of my Father, shall presently possess all else that is needful. But I say to you in all sincerity: Unless you seek entrance into the kingdom with the faith and trusting dependence of a little child, you shall in no wise gain admission.
Thanks everyone!! 
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
