Quotes About Reliance

When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do; when we depend upon education, we get what education can do; when we depend upon man, we get what man can do; but when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.1

In the first case, we use our own power to make ourselves moral. In the second case, we use our own power to make the church moral. In the first case, we fail to rely on the power of God for our own sanctification. In the second case, we fail to rely on the power of God for the sanctification of others.

In God we trust; all others must bring data. ~ W. Edwards Deming

I've never been convinced that the sun would come up without me barking.

Jesus Himself also said, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life" (John 3:36). When you trusted Jesus Christ, He saved you. I will pray for you that you will believe God and quit depending on your feelings and emotions. It would be wrong for me to be praying for God to give you the kind of feeling you want. That is not the way we are to know we are saved. We know we are saved because God said it and we have faith to believe it. Faith takes God's Word as true and relies upon it.

If you came to Christ, that was saving faith. Now then He wants you to have faith in His Word for assurance. That is simply to leave the matter with God and believe what He said.

We can trust God; we can trust that God is loving. And we can trust that we can—and that we certainly should—take God, in this matter, as in all things, at his word.

He devolves upon his own world the responsibility of being in the right against the dissentient worlds of other people; and it never troubles him that mere accident has decided which of these numerous worlds is the object of his reliance, and that the same causes which make him a Churchman in London, would have made him a Buddhist or a Confucian in Pekin.

I would rather trust in the living God than in any other power on earth

For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill coupled together as the Doctrine of Christianity and that of Transubstantiation, because they draw several ways, and are ready to strangle one another: For the main Evidence of the Christian Doctrine, which is Miracles, is resolved into the certainty of Sense, but this Evidence is clear and point blank against Transubstantiation.

How could she let him go, with all that information in his head? It was spotty, and they had no way of knowing how much of it was true, but it was all they had.

No one understands like Jesus When the days are dark and grim. No one is so near, so dear as Jesus; Cast your every care on Him.

Contentment is not mastering circumstances but faith in God.

The most important is that you come back." Nikolas nodded. "I can't live without a heart. Of course I'll come back".

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's a still poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

I am quite Pan-like in my naïve confidence that he will play by the rules and keep his word.

Don't you ever do that to me." "You know you'll never make as much of a fool of yourself as Horatio Augustus. So I won't have to.

In all your temporal concerns, in all your cares and anxieties, wait upon the Lord.

He hath said it, and He will perform His Word. Calmly rely on His promise, because He means all that He says. Say, He has spoken to me in His Word, and He will fulfill every promise that He has made. Do not become restless. Be trustful. God's Word is true.—Selected Messages, bk. 1, pp. 83, 84.

We are always to look to God; His word is not Yea and Nay, but Yea and Amen.—Selected Messages, bk. 2, pp. 394, 395.

Poor, frail human nature! God can do little for men who lose their sense of dependence upon Him.

Faith in Christ as a personal Saviour will give strength and solidity to the character. Those