Quotes about Reliance

Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who have no more trustworthy teacher than themselves.

The power to believe a promise depends entirely on our faith in the one who promises.

God will take upon Himself the responsibility of making you full of the Spirit, not as a treasure which you must carry and keep, but as a power which is to carry and keep you. Therefore, only believe. Count on the love of your Father. In

And the Christian life has suffered loss, where believers have not been distinctly guided to see that, even in our relation as creatures, nothing is more natural and beautiful and blessed than to be nothing, that God may be all;

Do not try to stir and arouse faith from within. How often I have tried to do that, and made a fool of myself! You cannot stir up faith from the depths of your heart. Leave your heart, and look into the face of Christ, and listen to what He tells you about how He will keep you.

The value of the promise depends on the promiser; faith in the promise depends on my knowledge of the promiser.

The value of the promise depends on the promiser; faith in the promise depends on my knowledge of the promiser. It is for this reason, before Jesus gave that wonderful prayer promise, He first said, Have faith in God.

It is only the fully surrendered heart that can fully trust God for all that He has promised.

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

All other comforts are temporary and illusory unless we depend wholly upon Christ.

Faithful is the Lord, who has made himself our debtor, not by receiving any thing from us, but by promising us all things," (August. in Ps. 32, 109, et alibi).

He who lives by faith does not have life in himself; he flees to God because he does not possess it.