Quotes about Dependence

We see thus that everything depends on our own relation to the Name: the power it has on my life is the power it will have in my prayers.

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is, from the very nature of things, the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue.

The weakness of your Christian life is that you want to work it out partly, and to let God help you.

All little lambs need a shepherd.

He only who is reduced to nothing in himself, and relies on the mercy of God is poor in spirit

We ought to contemplate providence not as curious and fickle persons are wont to do but as a ground of confidence and excitement to prayer. When he informs us that the hairs of our head are all numbered it is not to encourage trivial speculations but to instruct us to depend on the fatherly care of God which is exercised over these frail bodies.

Therefore, as Paul testifies, election, which is the cause of good works, does not depend upon men.

All other comforts are temporary and illusory unless we depend wholly upon Christ.

He who lives by faith does not have life in himself; he flees to God because he does not possess it.

Is it not rather meant that it was placed far above us, in order to convince us of our utter feebleness?

Unless God feed us daily, the largest accumulation of the necessaries of life will be of no avail.

All those who storm heaven like giants, without Christ's help, are deprived of any right knowledge of God.