Quotes about Reliance

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.

Prayer allows us to wait without worry.

We don't want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone—Trust God to take care of them.

To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.

His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

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

They are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post, for support rather than for illumination.

Turbulence means nothing if God is the pilot.

People don't believe what you tell them.They rarely believe what you show them.They often believe what their friends tell them.They always believe what they tell themselves.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

One must not rely on the dead," he said. "One must rely on the living—and on God who gives life to the living.

Each time God gives us a hard lesson He desires also to give us Himself. If we open our hands to receive the lesson we open our hearts to receive Him, and with Himself His vision to see the glory in the surrender, whether of small things like self-esteem and reputation, or bigger things like a career and a home.