Quotes About Reliance

The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and uncalculating dependence), and the celebration (the ready and spontaneous enjoyment) of the presence of the Word of God in the common life of the world.

Dogs are the only people I can trust.

There's no Walter Cronkite to give you the final word each evening.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

Lord, I contact You in Your way. I don't contact You by my thought, concept, or knowledge. Lord, You are my way.

Walking by faith has more to do with believing in our capable God than trusting in our incapable selves.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

To Nichiren, "freedom" meant not an escape from the realm of changing phenomena but the discovery of an absolute point of reliance within ourselves.

Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape.

Must not he also who has but little trust in others feel himself deprived of a very great blessing? For what society can be agreeable without mutual confidence, even between a man and a wife?

He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him.

They are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post, for support rather than for illumination.

The undernurtured young adult simply cannot afford to recognize that the parents he relies on are incapable of offering the support that he desperately needs.

Suffering is to cyclists what poll data are to politicians; they rely on it to tell them how well they are doing their job.

The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.

if one is to rely on human judges, it is very important that they never admit to error.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

The idea of mathematics having an ontology is the very last idea science would ever accept since its acceptance would instantly falsify science and require its replacement by ontological mathematics. Doesn't it alarm you that science deliberately seeks to reject the very thing – mathematics – on which it is 100% reliant?

For routines you call, rely only on documented behavior. If you can't, for whatever reason, then document your assumption well.

As the philosopher Baroness Onora O'Neill has said, 'If we are to place or refuse trust we need either unmediated evidence of others

when a person actually needs something or somebody, that's when you can truly read the gauge that contains character.

We can't see around walls, we can't see heat or cold, we can't see electricity or radio signals, we can't see at a distance. It is a sense so limited that we might as well not have it, yet we have evolved to depend so heavily on it as a species that all other perception has atrophied.

You can trust your gut instinct. Always.

Men are often mislead by their fellow-men.