Quotes about Reliance

God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together-humble dependence and manly independence; humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Christian experience is rightly used when it helps to convince us that the events narrated in the New Testament actually did occur; but it can never enable us to be Christians whether the events occurred or not. It is a fair flower, and should be prized as a gift of God. But cut it from its root in the blessed Book, and it soon withers away and dies.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

Do we not realize that the basic condition for a spiritual walk is to fear our self and its wisdom and to rely absolutely upon the Spirit?

The deceit, the lie of the Devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word.

If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says

I have experienced His presence in the deepest hell that man can create. I have really tested the promises of the Bible, and believe me, you can count on them.

Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.

It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they can rely upon the protection of God to preserve them from contamination.