Quotes About Reliance

Believing is easy. It gives us wiggle room to think our way out of a tight spot. But trust doesn't have any wiggle room. It explodes it. Trust is about being all in.

trust—not clarity, not certainty, but trust in God. And all of that poured out to the people around her.

Probably for the first time in my life I was beginning to comprehend that trust was a habit I would need to cultivate.

I've only been out a few days. I'd forgotten how fucking useless meat bodies are. There's barely enough neurones to run a walking routine, let alone something complicated like tying your shoelaces up. I've had to run an expanded mentality in the habitat's RI systems just to keep thinking properly; and that hardware isn't exactly young and frisky any more.

Maybe we're born not knowing what is and isn't valuable. Tribulation and poverty expose need, which forces the disciplines of relationship. Relationship opens the door for love and communion (great riches). Tribulation and poverty force us to rely on people. People are like a field of dirt that contains treasure. Storms wash away the dirt and expose the treasure.

Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.

Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?”

Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

Thus the Israelites were subdued at that time, and the men of Judah prevailed because they relied on the LORD, the God of their fathers.

Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God: “O LORD, there is no one besides You to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on You, and in Your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, You are our God. Do not let a mere mortal prevail against You.”

At that time Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and told him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.

Were not the Cushites and Libyans a vast army with many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, He delivered them into your hand.

He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?

Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.

No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.

A horse is a vain hope for salvation; even its great strength cannot save.

For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.

“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”

because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.