Quotes about Dependence
God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.
— John Piper
A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.
— Elisabeth Elliot
But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me.
— David Platt
Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.
— Horatius Bonar
The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependant upon God, and know it.
— Alan Redpath
God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.
— John Calvin
It's not my perfect performance that captures God's attention. It's my complete dependence on Him that He notices.
— Lysa TerKeurst
The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.
— Watchman Nee
Whatever you gain through self promotion you'll have to sustain through self promotion. When our promotion comes from God, He sustains it.
— Bill Johnson
No matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives.
— Oswald Chambers
I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
— Anne Lamott