spiritual reliance Quotes

Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.

I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase.

Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book, and I as rarely felt the want of any other.

The Lord continues to empty us in order to teach us to lay aside all self-reliance, that we may cling to Christ alone.

If you are worshipping God without depending on the Spirit of God, you are serving a god you do not know.

I've pretty much done all I can here and, you know, God will carry me the rest of the way, so I'm pretty comfortable with that.

The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.

To the Bible men will return; and why? Because they cannot do without it.

Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.

I can't sing, perform, do anything apart from Christ. I have no power or strength of my own.

Without my Savior, I am nothing.

A humble person is not one who thinks little of himself, hangs his head and says, "I'm nothing." Rather, he is one who depends wholly on the Lord for everything, in every circumstance.

My brethren, do you believe in the Holy Ghost?...Have we such a reliance upon the Holy Ghost? Do we believe that, at this moment, He can clothe us with power, even as He did the apostles at Pentecost? Do we believe that, under our preaching, by His energy a thousand might be born in a day?

To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.

I am the subject of depression so fearful that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes of wretchedness as I go to. But I always get back again by this-I know that I trust Christ. I have no reliance but in Him, and if He falls, I shall fall with Him. But if He does not, I shall not. Because He lives, I shall live also, and I spring to my legs again and fight with my depressions of spirit and get the victory through it. And so may you do, and so you must, for there is no other way of escaping from it.

O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.

[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.

I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit. I want people to look at my life and know I couldn't be doing this by my own power. I want to live in such a way that I am desperate for Him to come through. That if He doesn't come through, I am screwed.

We need to put no confidence in the arm of flesh, but rather trust ourselves entirely to the arm of the Lord.

You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.

A simple, childlike faith in a Divine Friend solves all the problems that come to us by land or sea

Our great need is to discover that Jesus is all we need.

Like I have said all along, I have the best doctor of all, and that is God. You can't argue with a guy like that.

It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide and friend.