Quotes about Reliance

Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagine God cradling the globe in his hands, and I tell myself that as long as I'm with God, the Creator of the universe, I can be comfortable and at home anyplace on the planet.

After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Just as David could not fight in the armor of King Saul, we are called to fight in the way God has equipped us uniquely.

What the early Christians meant by "belief" included both believing that God had done certain things and believing in the God who had done them. This is not belief that God exists, though clearly that is involved, too, but loving, grateful trust.

the word the early Christians used for "faith" can also mean "loyalty" or "allegiance.

As long as I've given something the best I can, have really committed, everything else is up to God.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

He makes Himself known to those who, after doing all that their powers will allow, confess that they need help from Him.

If we truly know why we trust God—and that crucial if must be answered with full intellectual and spiritual assurance—if we truly know why we trust God, then God is greater than all, and God may be trusted in all situations, despite everyone and everything.

The truth of the faith does not stand and fall with our defense of it.

In our abandonment we give ourselves over to God just as God gave Himself for us, without any calculations. The consequences of abandonment never enter into our outlook because our life is taken up in Him.

The grace you had yesterday will not be sufficient for today.