Top 40 Quotes About Reliance On God
#1. Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.
Andy Stanley
#2. Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.
John Piper
#3. Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.
Abraham Lincoln
#4. High and holy ambition
to be a saint
is not opposed to holy humility
total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride, which goes before a fall (Prov 16:18). Humility without ambition is false humility.
Peter Kreeft
#5. The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. By bravely enduring our trials, we learn humility, compassion for others, and a great reliance on God. We also learn that our happiness and progress depend much less upon what challenges life may bring and infinitely more on how we face and overcome those challenges.
Lloyd D. Newell
#7. "The way of Cain" describes any religious system that attempts to earn God's favor by works and rituals rather than reliance on God's grace.
Robert Jeffress
#9. Every single time I confess my self-reliance and submit my life to God's will in a particular area, I am worshiping God--as surely as any sincere Israelite offering a lamb in obedience to God's plan.
Barbara Hughes
#10. To have a friendship with God, all I really have to do is have a friendship with my Self.
Neale Donald Walsch
#11. Often admitting our weakness and fear is the first step to finding rest in God. Our trust in Him isn't conveyed though superhuman confidence as much as it comes in the way of childlike reliance on Him.
Tracie Peterson
#12. Dependence on the Lord is wisdom and self-reliance is foolishness. But dependence on the Lord does not mean laziness, it means prayerful action and patient perseverance ...
Katie Kiesler
#13. But it is heartening to realize that God accomplishes his purposes despite our frailties, our little faith, our entrenched self-reliance.
Ann Spangler
#14. God gives you everything you need. You just have to look around for it, and it will be there.
John Kramer
#15. Humor can help churches humble. It puts the community in touch with its inevitable limitations as a human organization, and its fundamental reliance to God. That leads us to God through the gateway of humility.
James Martin
#16. Ginger is not distracted by the way things could be, used to be, or should be. She perceives only what is. Our reliance on the intuition of a dog is often a way to find permission to have an opinion we might otherwise be forced to call (God forbid) unsubstantiated.
Gavin De Becker
#17. Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps
William McKinley
#18. Like sacrifices, prayer is intended to change man, not God. Its purpose is to cultivate a contrite heart, to promote feelings of humility and inadequacy in man, whilst encouraging reliance on Divine assistance.
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits
#19. We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.
Matthew Henry
#20. The revelation of God's grace contained in Romans delivers believers from a performance mentality - which bases relationship with God on our own efforts - to a total trust and reliance upon the Lord, His goodness, and grace.
Andrew Wommack
#21. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
Abraham Lincoln
#22. I trust everything, under God, to habit, upon which, in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, has mainly placed his reliance,
habit, which makes everything easy, and casts all difficulties upon the deviation from the wonted course.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux
#23. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
Thomas Jefferson
#24. The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and uncalculating dependence), and the celebration (the ready and spontaneous enjoyment) of the presence of the Word of God in the common life of the world.
William Stringfellow
#25. It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us.
Abraham Lincoln
#26. Your self-reliance, self-appraisal and self- perception depends on how successful you are at knowing who God has created you to become
Sunday Adelaja
#27. Without unreservedly surrendering myself to God, whatever place I might raise myself to remains nothing more than a step or possibly two off the hard basement floor of life, for of myself I can be utterly assured that I will never step out of the basement.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#28. What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not ... the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army ... our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms ...
Abraham Lincoln
#29. Any attempt to produce love, joy, peace, endurance, and so forth apart from the Spirit of God is reliance upon strategies that are in competition with God. Management
Jim Berg
#30. To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together ... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.
William Wordsworth
#31. Is He going to help Himself to your life, or are you taken up with your conception of what you are going to do? God is responsible for our lives, and the one great keynote is reckless reliance upon Him.
Oswald Chambers
#32. Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.
Randy Alcorn
#33. Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.
John C. Maxwell
#35. Confidence in the natural world is self-reliance; in the spiritual world, it is God-reliance.
Oswald Chambers
#36. 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
#37. Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God. The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.
Oswald Chambers
#38. Only when we cease to rely on our own strength can we discover that God's strength is always there for us.
Scott Hahn
#39. After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Just as David could not fight in the armor of King Saul, we are called to fight in the way God has equipped us uniquely.
N. T. Wright
#40. The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.
Matt Chandler
