Lorenzo Snow Quotes

We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.

Sometimes, it is enough for us to hold out a hand to receive help. It is not we who help; God helps, granting His power to the powerless word.

Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.

Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.

It is a common thing for men to benumb their own arms, and make them as dead and useless by leaning too much upon them: so it is in a moral as well as a natural way: all the prudence and pains in the world avail nothing without God. So saith the Psalmist, in Psalm cxxvii. 2.

Man thinks, God directs.

I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I decided to pray and to seek God on my own. I just stayed in The Word. And it worked.

Rely on Allah but tie your camel.

No, Sir, when God Almighty lays His hand upon a man, I take mine off.

I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.

Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.

God doesn't help those who help themselves; He helps those who can't help themselves!

Everyday ask God for favor. He can open doors for you that no one else can open.

Your situation does not embarrass God because He has solution.

Never doubt God's desire or ability to help you.

God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him.

The MORE you Trust in the Arm of the FLESH, the LESS you're going to see of the POWER of GOD.

We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices, but we should rely entirely on God.

A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.

I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that "except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel

We are dependent on God's power through every step of our redemption.

God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.

We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more confidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to have you reach after Him by faith. He longs to have you expect great things from Him. He longs to give you understanding in temporal as well as in spiritual matters. He can sharpen the intellect. He can give tact and skill. Put your talents into the work, ask God for wisdom, and it will be given you.