Quotes about Reliance

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.

As to their question-How can we be assured that this has sprung from God unless we have recourse to the decree of the church?-it is as if someone asked: Whence will we learn to distinguish light from darkness, white from black, sweet from bitter? Indeed, Scripture exhibits fully as clear evidence of its own truth as white and black things do of their color, or sweet and bitter things do of their taste.

It follows that we pray rightly only when we come to God trusting in the Mediator.

The word 'hope' I take for faith; and indeed, hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

For the truth of God is sufficiently solid and certain in itself, and can receive no better confirmation from any other quarter than from itself; but our faith being slender and weak, unless it be supported on every side, and sustained by every assistance, immediately shakes, fluctuates, totters, and falls.

True courage is founded altogether in God's protection; and those who rely upon God can boast not only that they are unafraid, but that they will be safe and secure when ruin overtakes the whole world.

because life is not stable except by faith. Let

We are in no position to rely upon God's promises unless we obey his commandments. Now

eLet this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture indeed is self-authenticated;16 hence, it is not right to subject it to proof and reasoning.

And this is the evidence of faith that we never allow ourselves to be torn away from Christ and the promises we have in him. The