Quotes about Dependence

I realized that everything I had to do I could not do on my own, and so I was almost obliged to put myself in God's hands, to trust in Jesus who - while I wrote my book on him - I felt bound to by an old and more profound friendship.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

But you know He doesn't take away the rough times. He helps you through them. Besides, all the difficult stuff makes you grow. It helps you depend on Him and not on yourself." Doug to Christy, pg. 156

The federal government must and shall quit this business of relief. Continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.

God and the world are not two things to be added together. Neither are they two things that are 'really' one thing. They exist in an asymmetrical relation in which one depends wholly on the other, yet is fully itself, made to be and to act according to its own logic and structure.

Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength.

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him, and He can make use of us in winning souls.

The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.

Life as a Christ follower will always be a learning process of depending less on our own strength and more on God's power.

There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.