Quotes About Dependence

When I pray, do I concentrate more on the "mountain" I want removed or on God, who can remove it?

God's friendship is with people who know their poverty.

confess them—"Lord, I have had misgivings about Thee, I have not believed in Thy wits apart from my own; I have not believed in Thine Almighty power apart from my finite understanding of it.

Will we remain faithful in our obedience to God and be willing to suffer the humiliation of refusing to be independent?

We need to rely on the resurrection life of Jesus much deeper down, to get into the habit of steadily referring everything back to Him; instead of this we make our commonsense decisions and ask God to bless them.

We have to be so one with God that we do not continually need to ask for guidance.

God has to take us into the valley and put us through fires and floods to batter us into shape, until we get to the point where He can trust us with the reality of the vision

Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God. The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.

Once we lose sight of God, we begin to be reckless. We cast off certain restraints from activities we know are wrong. We set prayer aside as well and cease having God's vision in the little things of life. We simply begin to act on our own initiative. If we are eating only out of our own hand, and doing things solely on our own initiative without expecting God to come in, we are on a downward path.

what God wants us to do is to "walk by faith." How many of us have set ourselves aside as if to say, "I cannot do anything else until God appears to me"? He will never do it. We will have to get up on our own, without any inspiration and without any sudden touch from God. Then comes our surprise and we find ourselves exclaiming, "Why, He was there all the time, and I never knew it!

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.

The criminal (as slave) often seeks a person of great perfection (and here, as a judge of people's imperfection, the criminal is much harsher than a good man), because he so wants to obtain trust from outside (not through an inner change of mind). If he believes he has found such a person, he gives himself up to him in the most complete slavery, and he searches in an importunate manner for people whom he could serve as a slave. He also wants to live as a slave so as never to be alone.

Money is in some respects life's fire it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

"Give us this day our daily bread" is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language.

You know how it is with cats: They don't really have owners, they have staff.

God wants to hear about our cares, not because he needs to hear but because we need to tell him.

I learned that if I always performed a rescue, the woman never learned to lean on God…..I now realize that I shouldn't work harder at a person's recovery than she is willing to work.

All, I find is Google. ?#?iampm?

Citizenship is a way of being in the world rooted in the knowledge that I am a member of a vast community of human and nonhuman beings that I depend on for essentials I could never provide for myself.

Who's in Charge Here? When a congregation is profoundly clergy-centered—when the pedagogy consists of a clergyperson (performer) downloading information and inspiration to parishioners (audience)—the game is rigged. The theological message may be one of community, but the lived experience is one of dependence on an authority. Under those conditions, not much can be done to build the communal trust that allows compassion to flower, no matter how benign the leader is.

You should take faith as lead first then trust will followed

Then you will have to trust me. Beyond logic, beyond reason, beyond hope, trust me.