Quotes About Reliance

Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

People tethered to God by faith can let themselves go because they know they will get themselves back.

We must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God.

I have surrendered to God; therefore I surrender to nothing else.

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.

Faithful continued prayer is one key to answered prayer. As James expresses it, "You do not have, because you do not ask God" (James 4:2).

We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.

I think faith in each other is much harder than faith in God...

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Sometimes you have to hold tight to what God has already said because you can get so clouded over emotionally that you can no longer rely on what feels right or wrong.

It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.

In a very real sense, all we need to know is that God knows all.

Worry is the warning light that shows I've stopped looking to God to meet my needs.

If God was small enough for you to completely understand him, he wouldn't be big enough for you to completely trust him.

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

When we trust our brother, whom we have seen, we are learning to trust God, whom we have not seen.

God without us will not as we without God cannot.

Don't worry. Just leave everything in the hands of God.

God is with me. Jesus is near. The Spirit is greater than my fear.

Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.