Quotes About Dependence

The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependant upon God, and know it.

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God's grace.

We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power.

If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps and material good.

The people are only tools, a means used by God. But they are not the sourse of help, aid, or salvation of any kind. Only God is. The people cannot even create the wing of a fly (Quran, 22:73).

It's not my perfect performance that captures God's attention. It's my complete dependence on Him that He notices.

The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.

Whatever you gain through self promotion you'll have to sustain through self promotion. When our promotion comes from God, He sustains it.

We bring nothing to God, and He gives us everything.

Be ever more obedient to God and He will save you.

I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.

To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.

When you're in trouble don't depend on yourself. Don't depend on people. Depend on God.

If you rely on God as He ought to be relied upon, He will provide you as He provides the birds; they go out empty and hungry in the morning and come back big bellied at eventide.

It is our own arrogance and pride that cause pain. The more that we think that we can do anything, the less we realize our complete dependence on God, and the worse the pain becomes.

How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.

Worrying is trying to figure out what to do to save yourself rather than trusting in God for deliverance.

We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.

You'll never know Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have. Are you in the wilderness? Find refuge in God's presence. Find comfort in his people.

Every day we need our gaze redirected from ourselves to God.

Every day of our Christian experience should be a day of relating to God on the basis of His grace alone. We are not only saved by grace, but we also live by grace every day.

But the sons of this world have not God; they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children.

God willing and the creek don't rise