Quotes about Dependence
Thus, to have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ and his mercy alone as our only hope of salvation.
— John Calvin
Convinced, however, we are not, if we look to ourselves only, and not to the Lord also.
— John Calvin
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
— John Donne
I need thy thunder, O my God; thy music will not serve me.
— John Donne
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
— Edmund Burke
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
— Thomas Jefferson
Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.
— Bill Johnson
A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God helps those who cannot help themselves.
— Charles Spurgeon
It pleases our heavenly Father when we acknowledge and confess to Him our inability to run our own lives. That is what we are doing when we say, "Father, help me! I need You!"
— Joyce Meyer
Do not look to your hope, but to Jesus, the Source of your hope.
— Charles Spurgeon
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
— St. Augustine