Quotes About Reliance

Everybody betrayed her, so why expect otherwise? But it turned out that distrust could fool you and endanger you, just as trust could.

you only had to provide part of a lie. You could rely on other people's imaginations to fill the gaps.

We are so reliant on power and technology for everything.

Only God knows the future and that we are to look to Him—not to the stars or the tea leaves or the lines on the palms of our hands—for our confidence in the future.

Faith literally means "to give up, surrender, or commit." Faith is complete confidence.

I have never been to the North Pole, and yet I believe there is a North Pole. How do I know? I know because somebody told me. I read about it in a history book, I saw a map in a geography book, and I believe the men who wrote those books. I accept it by faith. The Bible says, "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" [Romans 10:17 KJV].

Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.

Nothing in our lives takes God by surprise.

God and God's Word are inseparable.

Have you ever said, "Well, all we can do now is pray"? . . . When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God.

I am counting totally and completely on the Lord Jesus Christ, and not on Billy Graham. I am not going to heaven because I've read the Bible, nor because I've preached to a lot of people. I'm going to heaven because of what Christ did.

Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.

Faithfulness is produced by the Holy Spirit in a yielded Christian life.

I have been asked the question, "Who do you go to for counsel, for spiritual guidance?' My answer: My wife, Ruth. She is the only one I completely confide in.

Surrendering to Christ is like signing your name to a blank check and letting the Lord put in the amount.

Many people are trying to steady themselves by taking tranquilizers. Jesus is the greatest tranquilizer of all. He can straighten out your life and put you back on center.

Pray for wisdom to deal with whatever is worrying you. Pray that God will act to change the circumstances according to His will. He doesn't always do what we want Him to—but He knows what's best for us, and He can be trusted.

Why do we need to pray? Because the Christian life is a journey, and we need God's strength and guidance along the way.

I trust my instincts.

You know why we don't have solar energy? It's because the sun goes away each day, and it doesn't tell us where it's going!

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.

Belief and confusion are not mutually exclusive; I believe that belief gives you the direction in the confusion. But you don't see the full picture. That's the point. That's what faith is. You can't see it. It comes back to instinct. Faith is just up the street. Faith and instinct, you can't just rely on them. You have to beat them up. You have to pummel them to make sure they can withstand it, to make sure they can be trusted.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.