Quotes About Dependence

God is God, and I'm not.

Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.

God sometimes you just don't come through, Do you need a woman to look after you?

The Christian, like a chalice without a base, cannot stand on his own nor hold what he has received any longer that God holds him in His strong hands.

The divinity of Jesus is not a dispensable extra that has no significance for our salvation. On the contrary, our salvation depends on it. We can be saved only by God Himself.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

I'm dead in the water if I can't see the all sufficient glory of God.

This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.

God will rule the lives of all those who will surrender themselves without reservation to Him.

God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor.

God supplies the needs of His people according to their needs but does not ordinarily allow stockpiling.

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.

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

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.

Never try to help God fulfill His word.

Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.

Be exhausted for God, but remember that your supply comes from Him. 'All my fresh springs shall be in thee.'

God has made no one absolute.

God, I needed you," he murmured. "I can't even tell you how many times I thought about this. The funny thing is, I don't need you any less now. I think I need you more." ~Shane~

Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.

I think a lot of times God takes away your feelings, so you have to depend on faith. And faith is kind of like a tide. It rolls in and rolls out.

God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat Him. Explain.

We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence.