Quotes About Reliance

Still, we're less betrayed by others, it seems, than by our own hopes and dreams.

Oh, I've no sense of self-preservation," Reynard replied easily. "That's what I depend on you for.

Gurathin turned to him, impatient. "The log confirms it because that's what the Unit believes happened." Bharadwaj sighed. "Yet here I sit, alive.

She trusts me to take care of myself, even when she doesn't want to. I can't be like a normal consort; I'll just cause trouble. Look what I did at Opal Night, and I wasn't even trying.

Has God ever forsaken you? He told you He wouldn't, and He never has. Never.

Without faith, a man's hope is in nothing but himself. And sooner or later, he will let himself down. But God will never let us down.

I depended on you....You're older, you're supposed to be my...my archive. That's what sisters do, remember for each other.

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

Pray, and let God worry.

Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

Examples of this kind teach us that one should not believe any human being, no matter how saintly he may be, but must pay attention to Him who calls and to His Word.

For feelings come and feelings go, And feelings are deceiving; My warrant is the Word of God - Naught else is worth believing. I'll trust in God's unchanging Word Till soul and body sever, For, though all things shall pass away, His Word shall stand forever!

God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feeling, but only if it relies on the Word of God.

This is exactly how those who rely on their own efforts to be justified still act today. They concentrate on the good that they do, which they hope will please God. They don't trust in God's mercy and his grace. They aren't hoping that God will forgive their sins through Christ. This

For the Lord does not speak in vain, nor does He offer His Word to the lazy and smug, but to those who are in need, who toil, who are afflicted and are undergoing a very difficult conflict against the flesh and all external appearances, that is, against those things which according to human sense and reason fight against faith, as Heb. 11 says, so that the afflicted can rely on the sole protection of the Word of God and be sustained by it.

Therefore the first care of every Christian ought to be to lay aside all reliance on works, and strengthen his faith alone more and more, and by it grow in the knowledge, not of works, but of Christ Jesus

God is both willing and able to help. He gives health, happiness, and salvation. You can depend on this.

Faith is Individual

Let us then consider it certain and firmly established that the soul can do without anything except the Word of God and that where the Word of God is missing there is no help at all for the soul.

If what we need isn't available to us, we have to rely on God's promises. If we don't rely on God, we are testing him.

The psalm speaks of both, namely, that one must never under any circumstances trust either in temporal things of any kind or in one's own merits; that is to say, one must trust neither in temporal nor in spiritual goods, but through temporal and spiritual things in God alone.

God the Father has made everything to depend on faith, so that whosoever has it has all things, and he who has it not has nothing.