Quotes About Dependence

The more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us.

As leaders, it all comes down to trust. Do you trust the sovereignty of God?

Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.

Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.

The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

Either we will spend our lives trying to take care of ourselves or we will let go and let God take care of us as we put our faith and trust in Him.

It is said that we only get to know God in those stark moments when we are driven to depend on him.

The little birds have God for their caterer.

Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.

If [something] is of God, your dependence upon God will increase.

God works as long as His people live daringly; He ceases when they no longer need His aid.

Live in such a way that unless God shows up what you're attempting to do is bound to fail. This is the nature of the Gospel.

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

Help me. Please, God help me.

If our faith can live without God, it is not divinely created. If God had begotten it, it would wait upon Him as the flowers wait upon the dew.

If you need all the answers to trust God, you are not really trusting God.

We sit in meditation and cry to God, we cry to the light, as little children, knowing God will do everything for us.

The process of praying isn't about letting God know what you need, it's about letting you know more completely how much you need God and how vital having a relationship with Him is.

Those who serve God in vocational ministry must learn to trust Him for their daily needs before they can encourage others to do so.