Quotes about Dependence

Why do these civilizations all seem to follow the same identifiable sequence—from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, and finally from dependence back into bondage?

Nobody matures past his or her need for prayer and meditation.

I will not trust in riches but in him who richly provides.

It is amazing what can be accomplished when we wait on God to lead us out. It is equally amazing the mess we can make of things when we charge out on our own.

Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands?

Let no one profess to trust in God, and yet lay up for future wants, otherwise the Lord will first send him to the hoard he has amassed, before He can answer the prayer for more.

We can't treat the Bible with kid gloves. We really need to wrestle with the issues, because our faith depends on it.

But ultimately the truth is this: Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.

we can't be filled with the power of God until we let go of the false pretense that we can get by on our own.

Faith is only as good as the one in whom it's invested.

God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose He means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.