Quotes About Reliance

Successful parenting is the rightful, God-ordained loss of control. The goal of parenting is to work ourselves out of a job. The goal of parenting is to raise children who were once totally dependent on us to be independent, mature people who, with reliance on God and proper connectedness to the Christian community, are able to stand on their own two feet.

You and I weren't created for independent living. We were created to be dependent on God.

if your faith is based on your ability to fully understand your past, present, and future, then your moments of confusion will become moments of weakening faith.

Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

So peace is found only in trust, trust of the One who is in careful control of all the things that tend to rob you of your peace.

Dependency means living, as a leader, as if I really do believe that my walk with God is a community project. It means that because of the blinding power of remaining sin, I give up on the belief that no one knows me better than I know myself. Dependency means no longer being afraid of exposure, because I really do believe that there is nothing that could be known, exposed, or revealed about me that has not already been addressed by the person and work of Jesus.

La confianza es estar tan convencido de que puedes apoyarte en la integridad, fortaleza, carácter y fidelidad de la otra persona que estás dispuesto a ponerte bajo el cuidado de él o ella.

It tells us that he will never leave us or forsake us (Heb. 13:5).

And you can trust your own experiences more than your beliefs.

Happy are those who can relieve suffering with prayer Happy those who can rely on God to see them through. They can wait patiently for the end. But we who have put our faith in the goodness of man and now see man's image debas'd lower than the wolf or the hog— Where can we turn for consolation? Owen

Sometimes what you depend on is other people being even more wacked than you are.

People want to give up the responsibility of being able to understand and because they can't understand then they have faith, and they put their faith in other people who say they can understand.

Anything and anyone could disappear on you, and you could disappear, too, if you didn't have people around who really knew you. Who were there solidly, meeting you exactly where you stood when life grew stormy and terrifying. Who could find you when you were lost and couldn't find yourself, not even in the mirror.

Alexander was right, she thought, He has been right about everything. Everything that he told me would happen has come to pass.

Whoa! Hey, what are you doing? I'm attaching myself to you. Because I'm a kid. Spoil me.

See what I mean? You fell off. You're such a damsel in distress.

She turns her head and looks at me, and there is a trustfuless in that look I probably do not deserve. But maybe that is not the point, to deserve it or not, perhaps it just exists, that trust, disconnected from who you are and what you have done, and is not to be measured in any way.

It is time that you stand on the only thing that can never be shaken or changed. Stand upon my Word!

The day we start taking credit for the fact that he answers prayer we are in deep, deep trouble.

I believe this type of emotional hunger is at the core of most food addictions. One of the reasons food addictions are so difficult to manage is that food was the first source of self-comforting that was available to us. With the dearth of any other comfort, there is little wonder that we came to over-rely on eating for nurturance

The people you've always relied on, the ones you always believed would be there no matter what, may suddenly seem unavailable.

was learning to trust God enough (what a concept) to know that, like family (the Bible calls him "Father" after all), he will come through no matter what, that his love and commitment to me is deeper than how my brain happens to be processing information at any given moment, to trust that God will be with me, not despite the journey but precisely because I was trusting God enough to take it.

I need a place to let go and fall back from my familiar patterns and trust God to catch me.

Paradoxically, the challenges of our day-to-day existence are sustained reminders that our life of faith simply must have its center somewhere other than in our ability to hold it together in our minds.