Quotes about Reliance

Like the seminarian relying more on his knowledge of Hebrew than on the Spirit to hear God's voice in the text, we're more prone to carefully maneuvering our way through life than to abandoning ourselves to divine providence.

Amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance in God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.

The provision is in the promises.

They believe that a good intention already means a new beginning; they believe that on their own they can make a new start whenever they want. But that is an evil illusion: only God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God.

And we can pray only when we realize that we cannot do anything, that we have reached our limit, that someone else must make that new beginning.

Most of you live your life on flimsy little songs, not upon the word of God.

An important day in a young person's life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.

True consecration to Christ simplifies life, for it leaves the management to Him.

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history.

The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.

Without me you can do nothing.

Faith itself has no merit; in fact, by its nature it is self-emptying. It involves our complete renunciation of any confidence in our own righteousness and a relying entirely on the perfect righteousness and death of Christ.