Quotes about Dependence
Without realizing it, they're like clay telling the potter that they know more about pottery than he does and that they can form themselves into pots on their own (Is 29:16).
— John Goldingay
But what is the use of praying to One whose will is already fixed? We answer, Because He so requires it.
— AW Pink
To ask for anything contrary to His will is not prayer, but rank rebellion.
— AW Pink
We readily acknowledge that it is very humbling to the proud heart of the creature to behold all mankind in the hand of God as the clay in the potter's hand, yet this is precisely how the Scriptures of truth represent the case.
— AW Pink
What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
— George Bernard Shaw
Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.
— Ellen White
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
— St. Augustine
Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.
— Ignatius of Loyola
The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
— Samuel Johnson
duties are ours, events are the Lord's.
— Samuel Rutherford
Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.
— George Washington
When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.
— Oswald Chambers