Quotes about Dependence
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
- Thomas Jefferson
Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.
- Bill Johnson
A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God helps those who cannot help themselves.
- Charles Spurgeon
It pleases our heavenly Father when we acknowledge and confess to Him our inability to run our own lives. That is what we are doing when we say, "Father, help me! I need You!"
- Joyce Meyer
Do not look to your hope, but to Jesus, the Source of your hope.
- Charles Spurgeon
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
- St. Augustine
Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.
- Joseph Addison
he must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence
- Oswald Chambers
Brokenness is the STRIPPING OF SELF-RELIANCE AND INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD...but he is cast in total dependence upon the grace of God working in and through him.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.
- Thomas Paine
God is able to accomplish, provide, help, save, keep, subdue... He is able to do what you can't. He already has a plan. God's not bewildered. Go to Him.
- Max Lucado