Quotes About Dependence

The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time.

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean on God. And the harder we lean the stronger we grow.

In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.

Our greatest priority as Christian parents is to gradually transfer our children's dependence away from us until it rests solely on God.

True humility means total dependence on God for everything.

Put your expectations on God, not on people.

When you come to the place where you can't do anything else, you must stand still and believe... When you can't do anything, let God do it all.

Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.

The more we depend on God the more dependable we find He is.

Fortunately, we are not in control.

When you have nothing left but God, you become aware that God is enough.

Our tendency is to be strong, self-sufficient, and dependent on our own willpower, but rather than try harder, we should reach out to the God who is all-powerful.

God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

You're exhausted in the faith because you're looking at you. The more you look at yourself and the less you look at God, the more you get frustrated at yourself.

God never intended for us to rely on others for our sense of well being. Only He is equipped to provide that.

A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.

But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me.

Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.

Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

Trouble is one of God's great servants because it reminds us how much we continually need the Lord.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God.

God has a part,and we have a part. God will not do our part and we can't do His part