Quotes about Dependence
Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.
- Ignatius of Loyola
The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
- Samuel Johnson
duties are ours, events are the Lord's.
- Samuel Rutherford
Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.
- George Washington
When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.
- Oswald Chambers
All of a sudden, you're not too proud to ask for help. That's what it means to surrender to God.
- Marianne Williamson
You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both." If you want God to do something off the chart, you have to take your hands off the controls.
- Mark Batterson
Because we are what we love, our identity and our dignity depend on what we love and the depth and passion with which we love.
- Mark Buchanan
The church should not be an assembly of the self-righteous but an assembly of people who admit that they are not righteous apart from God's grace.
- Mark Dever
Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
- JI Packer
A secret dependence upon our prayers, tears, resolutions, repentance and endeavors, prevents us from looking solely and simply to the Savior, so as to ground our whole hope for acceptance upon his obedience unto death, and his whole mediation.
- John Newton