Quotes about Dependence
The best place any Christian can ever be in is to be totally destitute and totally dependant upon God, and know it.
- Alan Redpath
God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.
- John Calvin
It's not my perfect performance that captures God's attention. It's my complete dependence on Him that He notices.
- Lysa TerKeurst
The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.
- Watchman Nee
Whatever you gain through self promotion you'll have to sustain through self promotion. When our promotion comes from God, He sustains it.
- Bill Johnson
No matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives.
- Oswald Chambers
I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.
- Anne Lamott
Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.
- DL Moody
To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.
- Timothy Keller
God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.
- John Calvin
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
- Teresa of Avila