Quotes about Dependence
Lord God...use me as Your instrument -- but do not forsake me, for if ever I should be on my own, I would easily wreck it all.
— Martin Luther
When we get to the end of ourselves, we get to the beginning of God.
— Alan Redpath
Your salvation depends on what [Christ] has done for you, not on what you do for Him. It isn't your hold on God that saves you. It's His hold on you.
— Billy Graham
We ought to seek God's assistance in our affairs just as they happen.
— Brother Lawrence
God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.
— Charles Swindoll
God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.
— Oswald Chambers
Worry is the warning light that shows I've stopped looking to God to meet my needs.
— Rick Warren
The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.
— Jerry Bridges
Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.
— Jerry Bridges
Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
— AW Tozer
In times of weakness, choose to put yourself under God's control.
— Stormie Omartian