Quotes about Dependence

You will never know Jesus Christ as a reality in your life until you know him as a necessity.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.

An adult human can last 40 days without food, a week without any sleep, three days without water, but only five minutes without air. Yet nothing is more taken for granted than the air we breathe. However, not just any air will do - it must be exquisitely designed to meet our needs. Too little oxygen in the atmosphere will kill us, as will too much.

I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.

A weak hand may receive a rich jewel. A few grapes will show that the plant is a vine, and not a thorn. It is one thing to be deficient in grace, and another thing to lack grace altogether. God knows we have nothing of ourselves

Surrender yourself to the Lord, and wait patiently for him.

Whenever you feel weak, God is reminding you to depend on him.

And now here's the twist, the mystery, the unexpected truth about admitting that takes us back to the counterintuitive power of gospel: When you come to the end of yourself, you are at that exact moment in the kind of place where you can fully experience the God who is for you.

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

He takes up men who have come to an end of themselves, and whose trust and confidence is not in themselves but in God.

Depend on God, and the fear will find its right size.