Quotes about Reliance

Our trust in God must be based, not on someone else's experience, but upon what God has told us about Himself in His Word.

Our lives are also cluttered with a lot of "if onlys." "If only I had done this," or "if only that had not happened." But again, God has no "if onlys." God never makes a mistake; God has no regrets. "As for God, his way is perfect" (Psalm 18:30). We can trust God. He is trustworthy.

We, too, if we would speak of the Lord's great faithfulness, must turn from our circumstances to the Lord.

We must learn to live by His agenda if we are to trust Him.

John Owen again expressed this attitude of total reliance on Christ when he paraphrased Galatians 2:20: "The spiritual life which I have is not my own. I did not induce it, and I cannot maintain it. It is only and solely the work of Christ. It is not I who live, but Christ lives in me. My whole life is His alone.

Discipline must come from trust and confidence.

Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.

Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands?

Twasn't me, 'twas the Lord! I always told Him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect You to lead me,' an' He always did.

You know, my father used to look at people and he treated everyone with such respect, and he always believed that he would rather trust you face on and be disappointed perhaps down the road, be disappointed some of the time rather than never to trust someone, never to believe in someone, and alas, be disappointed all the time.

All those who try to go it sole alone,Too proud to be beholden for relief,Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

But ultimately the truth is this: Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.