Quotes About Reliance

It is only as we know God in this personal way that we come to trust Him.

But, as so often has been observed, we are to establish our beliefs by the Bible, not by our experiences.

The prayer of a Christian is not an attempt to force God's hand, but a humble acknowledgment of helplessness and dependence. When we are on our knees, we know that it is not we who control the world; it is not in our power, therefore, to supply our needs by our own independent efforts; every good thing that we desire for ourselves and for others must be sought from God, and will come, if it comes at all, as a gift from His hands.3

Regardless of the nature of the circumstances, we must learn to trust God if we would glorify God in them.

Confidence in the sovereignty of God in all that affects us is crucial to our trusting Him. 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.

we as Christians should put our trust in God, not in our nation's armaments.

we are just as dependent on God when the physician diagnoses a routine illness and prescribes a successful medication. We are just as dependent when the paycheck comes regularly and all our material needs are met.

God's providence clearly affirms that we can trust God.

This does not mean our country should discharge all our military personnel and mothball our ships and tanks. It means we should not trust in them.

When we discover we are weak in ourselves, we find we are strong in Christ.

Our trust in God must be based, not on someone else's experience, but upon what God has told us about Himself in His Word.

We, too, if we would speak of the Lord's great faithfulness, must turn from our circumstances to the Lord.

John Owen again expressed this attitude of total reliance on Christ when he paraphrased Galatians 2:20: "The spiritual life which I have is not my own. I did not induce it, and I cannot maintain it. It is only and solely the work of Christ. It is not I who live, but Christ lives in me. My whole life is His alone.

prayer is the one discipline in the Christian faith that makes us feel entirely dependent on God and thus sets us up for profound disappointment when God doesn't respond to our needs and requests.

My Macbook is my new boyfriend, except that he's dependable and meets all my demands.

A man has to have something he can put faith in.

Du kommer langt med vettet, sa faren min alltid, men der hvor vettet ikke bærer lenger, må du lite på Gud

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.

Then nothing worries you?" "Only being sent away from you. You're my religion. You're all I've got.

You had to trust the people you worked with completely or not at all, and you had to make decisions about the trusting.

Discipline must come from trust and confidence.

You had to trust the people you worked with completely or not at all

Most people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamppost; more for support than illumination

My hope, as always, was that someone else would make the decision for me, absolve me of the little responsibility I had.