Quotes about Reliance

When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.

Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you. And I was satisfied. More than satisfied--wonderfully at peace. There were answers to mmy hard questions--for now, I was content to leave them in my father's keeping.

Because of something she heard in school, Corrie asked her father what "sex sin" was while the two of them were riding on a train together. The father asked the little girl to carry his bag off the train. When she admitted that she could not do so, he said he would not be much of a father to expect this of her. The load was too heavy. This was the case, he said, with some knowledge. She needed to trust her father to give her knowledge at the right time.

Every day of my life had ended like this: that deep steady voice, that sure and eager confiding of us all to the care of God. The Bible lay at home on its shelf, but much of it was stored in his heart.

There were answers to this and all my hard questions—for now I was content to leave them in my father's keeping.

Every day of my life had ended like this: that deep steady voice, that sure and eager confiding of us all to the care of God.

Three times, he said, he had begged God to take away his weakness, whatever it was. And each time God had said, Rely on Me.

I don't know," she said softly. "But if God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know—to tell us that this too is in His hands.

Our fears matter. Because ultimately, our fears show how we're relying on our own efforts and not trusting in our Savior. The truth is we—you and I and everyone—are always inadequate. We're never enough. We're always weak.

It's always good to have other people who you can lean on and pick you up when you're down and vice versa.

Trust. It was possible to trust that which you could not predict, or plan, or control. In fact, it was essential. It was the only way to really live.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.