Quotes About Reliance

No believing Christian can be coerced beyond Holy Writ

Feelings come and feelings go, And feelings are deceiving; My warrant is the Word of God-- Naught else is worth believing. Though all my heart should feel condemned For want of some sweet token, There is One greater than my heart Whose Word cannot be broken. 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!

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter.

When did you trust someone to hold a truth as carefully as you did?

Contrary to what some have suggested, "helper" is not a demeaning term that indicates a lesser status, or the type of help that assists in a trivial way. The Hebrew word (ezer) is a powerful one. It's most often used with reference to the Lord being our helper (Pss. 33:20; 72:12). An "ezer" provides help that is absolutely and utterly indispensable.

There's such a fine line between maintaining independence and knowing when you aren't independent anymore.

Let's go,' he said, 'I'll need something to lean on, and you look like you'd make a good crutch.

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.x

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

To your friends, you're like a trash bag; they'll use you for a little bit, then they'll throw you out.

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Just think of me and I will be there

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man who has a few friends, or one who has a dozen (if there be any one so wealthy on this earth), cannot forget on how precarious a base his happiness reposes; and how by a stroke or two of fate --a death, a few light words, a piece of stamped paper, a woman's bright eyes --he may be left, in a month, destitute of all.

The Gospel isn't a life management program. It shouldn't merely be the crutch we fall on when life gets ugly. It should be the legs we walk on, the air we breathe.

A cunning liar who relies on the word of another? I suppose I should appreciate the colossal irony.

I don't care about how you do it. Fall on him. That should do it. Do I have your word?

The ones who are innocent help because they trust us. And the ones who aren't so innocent pretend to trust us because they're afraid of looking guilty.

Stay with Jesus, and He'll stay with you.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out.