Quotes About Reliance

An important day in a young person's life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.

True consecration to Christ simplifies life, for it leaves the management to Him.

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history.

Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.

If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over.

The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.

She had handed him her heart in her hands without truly knowing whether this quiet, enclosed man could be trusted with it. But it had gone; it had flown from her as if it had always been his, regardless of what he wanted to do with it.

There was an excuse for everything these days. Except it meant someone else picking up the pieces.

Sometimes I think I'll never trust another girl the way I trust you.

When Conrad Fisher told a girl he loved her, he meant it. A girl could believe in that. A girl could maybe even bet her whole life on it.

I like that I am needed, that I am beholden to somebody.

Do you remember that? You stayed with me and you pushed me back to shore, and the whole time, you kept saying, 'We're almost there,' and I believed it. I believed it because you were the one who was saying it, and I believed everything you ever said.

For the truth is in men's heads and in their hearts. Do not always put your trust in words that you see on paper.

Without me you can do nothing.

I've learned that depending on others isn't a sign of individual weakness, but of communal strength.

It's not wise to rely on a man's ability to remember anything.

A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.

Faith itself has no merit; in fact, by its nature it is self-emptying. It involves our complete renunciation of any confidence in our own righteousness and a relying entirely on the perfect righteousness and death of Christ.

In order to trust God, we must always view our adverse circumstances through the eyes of faith, not of sense.

If there is a single event in all of the universe that can occur outside of God's sovereign control, then we cannot trust Him.

The sovereignty of God is the one impregnable rock to which the suffering human heart must cling.

Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God.

Christianity is not a do-it-yourself thing.

God had brought a "crooked" event into my life, and I became acutely aware that only He could straighten it. Could I trust God whether or not He straightened my "crook" and relieved my distress?