Quotes about Reliance

High and holy ambition--to be a saint--is not opposed to holy humility--total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride, which goes before a fall (Prov 16:18). Humility without ambition is false humility.

God said it, that settles it.

Of course we should use all our powers, of mind and will and imagination, but not trust in them, for that is trusting in ourselves.

God's past faithfulness and compassion toward us is a heritage upon which we build our faith in the future.

Prayer is the only way to maintain a constant state of dependence on God.

The believed gospel saves; but it is the believed promise that assures us of this salvation.

I'd trusted in my own strength about so many things. I realized God delights in using the weak and fearful.

Everything in this life can fail. I have to keep reminding myself that only God is faithful and never fails us. Things are bleak, life is unfair, but this isn't over yet. We will see God work.

None of us is fit to do anything. It's only with the Lord's help we get by.

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.

Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.

It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.