Quotes about Reliance

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

Turn to God for help not as a last resort, but as a first priority.

Saving faith is resting faith, the trust which relies entirely on the Savior.

When you're passionate about God, you can trust your passions.

When all of life feels like an urgent rush from one demand to another, we become forgetful. We forget simple things like where we put our car keys or that one crucial ingredient for dinner when we run into the grocery store. But even more disturbing, we forget God. We say with our mouths that we are trusting and relying on God, but are we really?

I am counting totally and completely on the Lord Jesus Christ, and not on Billy Graham. I am not going to heaven because I've read the Bible, nor because I've preached to a lot of people. I'm going to heaven because of what Christ did.

When we allow our faith to be defined by our feelings, we will be confused. Faith must have an objective standard by which it is defined—truth. In fact, when faith operates by an objective standard of truth, it will eventually dictate our emotions rather than the reverse.

To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.

There are stages in life when there is no storm, no crisis, when we do our human best; it is when a crisis arises that we instantly reveal upon whom we rely. If we have been learning to worship God and to trust Him, the crisis will reveal that we will go to the breaking point and not break in our confidence in Him.

Waiting for Me to work, with your eyes on Me, is evidence that you really do trust Me.

We do not become less needy, less dependent when we pray; we become more needy, more dependent, which is to say, more human.

In the spiritual life, the opposite of fear is not courage, but trust.