Quotes about Self-reliance

Doesn't matter what people say, doesn't matter what they are going to say about you. You gotta go out there and play your game.

Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.

My strength does not come from my clothing.

I think anybody should be confident in themselves.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

Faith for Jesus is the opposite of anxiety. If you are anxious, if you are trying to control everything, if you are worried about many things, you don't have faith, according to Jesus. You do not trust that God is good and on your side. You're trying to do it all yourself, lift yourself up by your own bootstraps.

Jesus puts healed people back on themselves, never creating any kind of dependency or codependency on him that will keep them from their own empowerment. All people must learn to draw from their own Implanted Spirit, which is the only thing that will help them in the long run anyway. Jesus gives them the courage to trust their own "inner Christ"—and not just its outer manifestation in himself. Go reread the Gospels and see if that is not true!

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.

And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much, The self-sufficing power of solitude.

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.