Quotes About Reliance

But ultimate safety does not exist. Those who trust in such will find that hope dashed upon the very rock behind which they seek to hide.

Hold on! Ichigo! Listen…I don't know what you're going through, but…stop worrying about me. I'm not one of your classmates! I'm a grownup! I'm too old to have a kid like you worrying about me! So if something happened you better tell me! Kids… are allowed to rely on adults!

When those who don't trust each other fight together…the strength in each is diminished. Those who trust only in their own strength can't comprehend that. Ichigo can you trust me?" "Of course. All of my strength…is yours. Use it however you want. And…lend me your strength.

the problem with so secure a place was that it depended absolutely on secrecy which, once blown, became a fatal liability

I try not to think of these things. I choose to fix my eyes on Jesus Christ.

God says, the check's in the mail.

God says the check is in the mail

can't build the church with any great idea, plan or management. The church is built by Someone else.

Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.

Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency ?f living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

When Jesus calls us to bear fruit in this life, He is prompting us to demonstrate our faith by relying on Him and taking courses of action that defy the wisdom of the world.

Well, that's the way it was. Nobody counted on Garner dying. Nobody though he could. How 'bout that? Everything rested on Garner being alive. Without his life each of theirs fell to pieces. Now ain't that slavery or what is it?

Exactly the way old folks said: not when you call Him; not when you want Him; only when you need Him and right on time.

In order to have faith, you have to know the truth and you have to respond to it. Even having a lot of faith doesn't help you if your faith isn't connected to the truth. Faith is only as valuable as the thing it's connected to.

God has already told you in His Word how to find your greatest source of strength—it's your closeness to Him. It is in this location—right next to Christ—that you are supposed to "stand firm.

An idol is that thing you ultimately count on for your provision, direction, and satisfaction.

Catastrophe is the time to run into God's arms, not away from them.

We are happy to have God in our vicinity even though he is not in our midst. We like to have God in general, but we think we don't need God in specific.

God will often allow us to be in a situation with no possible solution. This is so we can discover that He is our solution. He lets us hit rock bottom in order for us to learn that He is the Rock at the bottom.

All collective undertakings require trust. From the games that children play to complex social institutions, humans cannot work together unless they suspend their judgments of one another.

the British Prime Minister Clement Attlee used to advise against the 'fundamental fallacy' of believing that 'it is possible by the elaboration of machinery to escape the necessity of trusting one's fellow human beings'.10

This is what 'forever' means, my dear. You don't walk into danger on your own. Not anymore.

When people stop moving in life, they stop getting these internal hits of feel-good chemicals. They have to start relying on other ways to artificially stimulate them, like video games, alcohol, smoking weed, social media, or watching porn. We get addicted to these things in a desperate attempt to compensate for the fact that we're not really living our lives.