Quotes about Reliance

You and I weren't created for independent living. We were created to be dependent on God.

Physical suffering exposes the delusion of personal autonomy and self-sufficiency

So peace is found only in trust, trust of the One who is in careful control of all the things that tend to rob you of your peace.

You didn't do it, and the sooner you understand that, the better it will be for you and your marriage. You couldn't have done it. You're simply not that powerful and not that wise. You and I like to think that it was all our initiative, but it wasn't. When you face the fact that your marital story is all about the wisdom and will of Another, your understanding of marriage completely changes forever.

It tells us that he will never leave us or forsake us (Heb. 13:5).

It is time that you stand on the only thing that can never be shaken or changed. Stand upon my Word!

The day we start taking credit for the fact that he answers prayer we are in deep, deep trouble.

was learning to trust God enough (what a concept) to know that, like family (the Bible calls him "Father" after all), he will come through no matter what, that his love and commitment to me is deeper than how my brain happens to be processing information at any given moment, to trust that God will be with me, not despite the journey but precisely because I was trusting God enough to take it.

I need a place to let go and fall back from my familiar patterns and trust God to catch me.

In the spiritual life, the opposite of fear is not courage, but trust.

Believing is easy. It gives us wiggle room to think our way out of a tight spot. But trust doesn't have any wiggle room. It explodes it. Trust is about being all in.

trust—not clarity, not certainty, but trust in God. And all of that poured out to the people around her.