Quotes About Dependence

Break in the hands of God, He'll unbreak you. Break in the hands of people, you'll remain forever broken. Break to no one, your heart will remain hard.

Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God.

A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'

My soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God.

We are dependent on God's power through every step of our redemption.

God doesn't answer prayer, He answers desperate prayer!

We don't ask God for too much; in fact, we ask for too little. Turn to Him for everything. Give everything to God.

The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.

We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.

If our lives are easy, and if all we ever attempt for God is what we know we can handle, how will we ever experience His omnipotence in our lives?

Pride is the rope God allows us all.

Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.

Theres not one good thought in me, apart from God. Thats the good news.

I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'.

When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.

God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

People tethered to God by faith can let themselves go because they know they will get themselves back.

Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty.

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

God does nothing apart from prayer, but he does everything by it.

God wants us to be totally dependent on Him, and suffering seems to bring us to that point.

Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.