Quotes about Dependence
Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference to be doing something else.
- David Jeremiah
To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.
- Kevin DeYoung
A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.
- Jonathan Cahn
You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.
- AW Tozer
If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.
- Leonard Ravenhill
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
- Teresa of Avila
Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.
- John Stott
By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh.
- Leonard Ravenhill
The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.
- George Whitefield
What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.
- Max Lucado
Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.
- Charles Spurgeon
It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.
- John Piper