Quotes About Dependence

What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.

It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.

We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.

We can do nothing without prayer.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.

Without faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer.

Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.

Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives.

The gift of prayer is not always at our command.

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the door unto Him and gives Him access to all your needs.

We lie to God in prayer if we do not rely on him afterwards.

Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.

His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.

Unless I had the spirit of prayer I could do nothing.

There is no hope but in prayer.

The purpose of prayer is not to inform God of our needs but to invite Him to rule our lives.

Cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee.