Quotes about Dependence

God wants us to bring our everyday needs to Him, even if they appear trivial. He doesn't demand that we approach Him only when we have raised ourselves to some kind of spiritual elevation above the everyday things of life. He comes to meet us where we are, and therein lies His greatness. When we come to Him with our "little things," we do Him great honor.

We don't need self-confidence we need God-confidence

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.

Dependence, sorrow, repentance, a longing to change—these are the gates to God's kingdom.

Self-sufficiency which first reared its head in the Garden of Eden, is the most fatal sin because it pulls us as if by a magnet that their lack of self-sufficiency is obvious to them every day. They must turn somewhere for strength, and sometimes they go through life relying on their natural gifts. But there's a chance, just a chance, that people who lack such natural advantages may cry out to God in their time of need.

The world runs by ungrace. Everything depends on what I do.

Anderson draws from the experience of Judas a key principle about prayer: "Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and unpredictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

There's something unique about having only God to lean on in times of trial.

Only he who is helpless can truly pray.

unless we learn dependence we will never experience grace.