"No, sir, I am not surprised," said the old man; then added: "from what you say, I see you are something of my way of thinking—you think that to distrust the creature, is a kind of distrusting of the Creator." (45, 32)
This line coming in at the eleventh hour is a pretty neat summation of the pro-confidence camp's stance: when you doubt humans, you doubt the God that made them. Too bad the old man says this immediately before buying a bunch of things (like locks) that demonstrate that the confidence he's got is pretty slim.