Quotes About Reliance

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are. No one's knowledge is less secure than your own.

This was the key it seemed to us. Everything was fine, would continue to be fine, would eventually get even better as long as the supermarket did not slip.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are. No one's knowledge is less secure than your own.

We have become dependent upon our technologies to navigate the world, to hold intelligent conversation, to write intelligently, and to remember.

We don't pray for rain. We wait for rain, and when it comes, we thank God for it.

97. I approached the symbol, with its layers of meaning, but when I touched it, it changed into only a beautiful princess. 98. I threw the beautiful princess headfirst down the mountain to my acquaintances. 99. Who could be relied upon to deal with her.

At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

God risked himself on me. I will risk myself on you.

I guess it's about trust. Trusting what you feel. Trusting the person who inspired those feelings with the weight of them and all they could mean.

And though there was something pathetic about it—taking comfort in her left-behind things like a puppy snuggled in an old coat...

I never realized, you know, how much we rely on appearances, he said. It's not that we're so smart, it's just that we don't look like we did it. We might as well be a bunch of Sunday-school teachers as far as everyone else is concerned. But these guys won't be taken in by that.

The only way to be really happy, in such a world as this is to be ever casting all our cares on God.

Justifying faith is a grace that does not work, but simply trusts, rests, and leans on Christ (Romans 4:5). Sanctifying faith is a grace of which the very life is action. It works by charity (Galatians 5:6), and like a driving force, it moves the whole inward man.

Almost by force of habit, successful people simply do more. As a result, they experience not only greater financial rewards for their extra efforts but also a personal transformation, becoming more self-confident, more self-reliant, and more influential with those around them.

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares about you. -1 Peter 5:7

was God's grace in these dark circumstances that drew me closer to Him.

Her father had taught her that trust is the foundation of any relationship.

We must trust everyone and no-one

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.

And because they were always there, and always seemed to be on his side, they could always keep him sufficiently deceived to come back for more than anyone in his right senses would come back for.

To follow, under all circumstances, the highest promptings within you; to be always true to the divine self; to rely upon the inward Voice, the inward Light, and to pursue your purpose with a fearless and restful heart, believing that the future will yield unto you the need of every thought and effort; knowing that the laws of the universe can never fail, and that your own will come back to you with mathematical exactitude -- this is faith and the living of faith.

Si uno de los pilotos pasaba por nuestro lado con cara seria, pensaba. «Se acabó, Estamos perdidos. Se lo leo en la cara.» Si, por el contrario, pasaba sonriendo amablemente, me decía: «La cosa debe de estar muy mal. Quiere tranquilizarnos.