Quotes about Reliance

For feelings come and feelings go, And feelings are deceiving; My warrant is the Word of God - Naught else is worth believing. I'll trust in God's unchanging Word Till soul and body sever, For, though all things shall pass away, His Word shall stand forever!

God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feeling, but only if it relies on the Word of God.

This is exactly how those who rely on their own efforts to be justified still act today. They concentrate on the good that they do, which they hope will please God. They don't trust in God's mercy and his grace. They aren't hoping that God will forgive their sins through Christ. This

For the Lord does not speak in vain, nor does He offer His Word to the lazy and smug, but to those who are in need, who toil, who are afflicted and are undergoing a very difficult conflict against the flesh and all external appearances, that is, against those things which according to human sense and reason fight against faith, as Heb. 11 says, so that the afflicted can rely on the sole protection of the Word of God and be sustained by it.

Therefore the first care of every Christian ought to be to lay aside all reliance on works, and strengthen his faith alone more and more, and by it grow in the knowledge, not of works, but of Christ Jesus

God is both willing and able to help. He gives health, happiness, and salvation. You can depend on this.

If what we need isn't available to us, we have to rely on God's promises. If we don't rely on God, we are testing him.

The psalm speaks of both, namely, that one must never under any circumstances trust either in temporal things of any kind or in one's own merits; that is to say, one must trust neither in temporal nor in spiritual goods, but through temporal and spiritual things in God alone.

God the Father has made everything to depend on faith, so that whosoever has it has all things, and he who has it not has nothing.

No believing Christian can be coerced beyond Holy Writ

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter.