Quotes About Dependency

As long as we think we own anything, that thing owns us. As soon as we know that we own nothing, then God owns us.

God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

No matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives.

God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.

Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out.

Fasting reminds us that we are sustained by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). Food does not sustain us; God sustains us.

It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!

Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.

There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.

God without us will not as we without God cannot.

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.

Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.

You should not begin to pray for all you want until you realize that in God you have all you need.

Anything good that we do is because of God. Whenever we get our eyes off of Him we crash and burn.

The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.

If we were a dog and God owned us, the cops would come and take us away.

Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken "toys," but as our Father.

The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.

...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all; and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'