Quotes about Reliance
We do not become less needy, less dependent when we pray; we become more needy, more dependent, which is to say, more human.
— Eugene Peterson
You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.
— Eugene Peterson
Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right instead of trying to be right on his own. Romans 4:3
— Eugene Peterson
We know that no trust can be placed on princes and that cursed is the man who placeth his reliance on an arm of flesh.
— Thomas Becket
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him
— Beth Moore
We can trust the Savior even when we can't trust ourselves.
— Beverly Lewis
Trust in him at all times . . . pour out your heart before him.
— Beverly Lewis
To be all we can be requires that we are more dependent on God.
— Bill Johnson
Comfort & peace never come from anything we know about ourselves, but only & always from what we know about Him.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
It is a law of the spiritual life that every act of trust makes the next act less difficult. Trusting becomes like breathing, the natural unconciousness of the redeemed soul.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
Has the kingdom of God been overadvertised, or is it only that it has been underbelieved; has the Lord Jesus Christ been overestimated, or has He only been undertrusted?
— Hannah Whitall Smith