Quotes About Reliance

Power without [the people's] confidence is nothing.

Human being may fail you, but God will never forsake thee.

Call on Jesus Christ in any circumstance.

Through all life changes, God is in control.

Some of us don't trust others unless there's a reason to trust them.I prefer to trust others until they give me a reason not to.

God will never forsake you.

You may doubt others but you can be sure to yourself.

He who has not faith in others shall find no faith in them.

Once you begin to believe there is help "out there " you will know it to be true.

Believe that when you come into the presence of God you can have all you came for. You can take it away, and you can use it, for all the power of God is at your disposal in response to your faith.

Our weaknesses are not as negative as we may believe. They make us rely upon God's grace and power for greater Christlikeness and ministry.

One glaring problem was that the Continental Army, with few experienced officers, had to rely on foreign mercenaries. European officers from twenty countries

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

I think these days when there is so little to believe in——when the old loyalties——God, country, and the hope of Heaven——aren't very real, we are more dependent than we should be on our friends. The only thing left to believe in——someone who seems beautiful.

Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.

We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.

I would sooner be governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand members of the faculty of Harvard.

Humana dita argu mentis ac testibus egent; Dei autem sermo ipse sibi testis est, quia necesse est quicquid incorrupta veritas loquitur incorruptum sit veritas testimonium: so Salvan (De Gub. Dei, lib. iii)—men need arguments and witnesses to prove and vouch what they say to be true; but the word of God is a sufficient witness to itself, because what truth itself, which is pure, saith, can be no other than a sincere and true testimony.

Unhappy man he, that hath no surer portion than what this variable world will afford him. The

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

One needs the inner strength which comes with the conscious presence of a personal God. If those who are thus fortified sometimes yield to temptation, how helpless and hopeless must those be who rely upon their own strength alone!

If we put everything in God's hands, maybe we don't have to be afraid anymore.

The bottom line was that people who leaned too heavily on someone else were setting themselves up for a terrible fall, and they had no one to blame in the end but themselves for the hurt they suffered. Cork had learned the hard way.