Quotes about Dependence
God's grace is freely available but in order to receive it you have to realize you are lost without it.
- David Jeremiah
Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way.
- Francis Chan
Worrying is trying to figure out what to do to save yourself rather than trusting in God for deliverance.
- Joyce Meyer
Three things faith does: it reckons on God; it risks with God (and) it rests in God.
- Leonard Ravenhill
We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.
- Martin Luther
You'll never know Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have. Are you in the wilderness? Find refuge in God's presence. Find comfort in his people.
- Max Lucado
Every day of our Christian experience should be a day of relating to God on the basis of His grace alone. We are not only saved by grace, but we also live by grace every day.
- Jerry Bridges
But the sons of this world have not God; they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children.
- AW Tozer
A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'
- Francis Chan
There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
- John Ortberg
We are dependent on God's power through every step of our redemption.
- Jonathan Edwards
If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives.
- Joyce Meyer