Quotes about Dependence

We ought to contemplate providence not as curious and fickle persons are wont to do but as a ground of confidence and excitement to prayer. When he informs us that the hairs of our head are all numbered it is not to encourage trivial speculations but to instruct us to depend on the fatherly care of God which is exercised over these frail bodies.

Therefore, as Paul testifies, election, which is the cause of good works, does not depend upon men.

All other comforts are temporary and illusory unless we depend wholly upon Christ.

He who lives by faith does not have life in himself; he flees to God because he does not possess it.

Is it not rather meant that it was placed far above us, in order to convince us of our utter feebleness?

Unless God feed us daily, the largest accumulation of the necessaries of life will be of no avail.

All those who storm heaven like giants, without Christ's help, are deprived of any right knowledge of God.

Thus, to have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ and his mercy alone as our only hope of salvation.

Convinced, however, we are not, if we look to ourselves only, and not to the Lord also.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

I need thy thunder, O my God; thy music will not serve me.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.