Quotes About Reliance

Trust that I am here. Trust me by my actions, my affections. Those are my currency.

We must try to trust one another. Stay and cooperate.

You can't let God down because you are not the one holding him up

Men Gud ändå, jag har ju redan köpt hela konceptet, hör du inte på? Jag går ner på knä om du vill.

Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.

faith is the subsistance of things not seene;

To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)

Did the sudden dark remind you that all of the things we expect to be there for us, to protect us, shelter us, provide for us, are fleeting and finite?

It's not so much that you've lost your faith in time as that time has lost its faith in you

Neither arms nor armor can deliver Corenwald—only the arm of the One God.

There neither was nor would be a time when Israel could rely on numbers, or vast tracts of territory, or easily defensible borders. So it was then. So it is now.

Well, if it's so easy, Kitty demanded hotly, "how come the magicians haven't stopped it?" The Djin gave a cold smile, "Because it would require personal bravery. They never do anything themselves. They rely on us the whole time. Mandrake gives me an order and I obey. He sits at home and I go out and suffer. That's the way it works.

If you think I suddenly trust you, Bartimeaus —" "Oh, don't trust me , whatever you do. Trust your summons. I'm charged to keep you safe at this point, aren't I?

This is what we had become, after the first symbiotic year of our living together: a couple who needed another couple to be around.

Could I make you believe something that wasn't true?' He studied her through his eyelashes. 'You could make me believe anything at all.

Trust in God - she will provide.

God has entrusted me with myself.

No necesitamos tanto de la ayuda de nuestros amigos cuanto de la confianza en esa ayuda.

Non abbiamo tanto bisogno dell'aiuto degli amici, quanto della certezza del loro aiuto.

It is not so much our friends help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

In his famous Letters and Papers from Prison, the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote: . . . how wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. If in fact the frontiers of knowledge are being pushed further and further back (and that is bound to be the case), then God is being pushed back with them, and is therefore continually in retreat. We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know.