Quotes About Reliance

Christianity prepared the ground. It paved the way for modern totalitarianism by entrenching three fundamentals in the Western mind: in metaphysics, the worship of the supernatural; in epistemology, the reliance on faith; as a consequence, in ethics, the reverence for self-sacrifice.

There are some things about God that, were I to stop believing them, my world would change color, my hope would turn sour, and the meaning of my life would be yanked inside out.

If you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?

Si tú crees en mí, yo creeré en ti. ¿No es un buen trato?

There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another...

Beggin' your pardon, miss, but I was told you be the one to help me cross on to the next world. Who told you this? His eyes widen. A fearsome creature with a head full of snakes! You musn't fear her, I say, taking the man's hand and leading his toward the river. She's as tame as a pussycat. She'd probably lick your hand given the chance. Didn't seem harmless, he whispers, shuddering. Yes, well, things are not always as they appear, sir, and we must learn to judge for ourselves.

That was the trouble with wanting somebody else to take on making decisions—sometimes they did, and you ended up going to Nebraska.

Even if my father and mother abandon me, the LORD will take care of me. Psalm 27:10

Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

For some of us, our feelings are an idol. If we feel beautiful, we believe we are beautiful. If we feel good, we believe we are good. If we live by our feelings alone, they will lie to us and it will not be long before we are led astray.

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.

Your walk with God does not depend on people, places, things or events.

All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.

God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual "fix" for the day.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Believers are inclined to attribute their spiritual successes to their godliness when it would be more accurate to connect them with God's faithfulness.

When a fully qualified Mahayana disciple relies completely upon a fully qualified Mahayana Spiritual Guide the attainment of enlightenment is easy.

I trust God, but He trusted me first. I love God, but He loved me first.

To have a desire means to have dependency.