Quotes About Dependence

Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls.

When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.

When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

Three kinds of souls, three prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.

No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer.

O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.

Prayer is continual abandonment to God.

Anything, and I mean anything, becomes a blessing if it drives us to prayer.

Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.

In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is. For it we pray."

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.

You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.

True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.

If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray.

Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.

By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh.

The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.

We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom