Quotes About Dependence

Can you trust him to bring in your grain and gather it to your threshing floor?

I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”

Then we will not turn away from You; revive us, and we will call on Your name.

All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.

As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.

The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.

He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.

He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legpower of the man.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;

Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!

For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my masterís servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles.

We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

so that the kingdom would be brought low, unable to lift itself up, surviving only by keeping his covenant.

Take no bag for the road, or second tunic, or sandals, or staff; for the worker is worthy of his provisions.

But Jesus answered, “It is written: ëMan shall not live on bread alone.í”

“Take nothing for the journey,” He told them, “no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no second tunic.

Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.

I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.

So then, it does not depend on manís desire or effort, but on Godís mercy.

so that no one may boast in His presence.

I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.

and those who use the things of this world, as if not dependent on them. For this world in its present form is passing away.