Dependence On God Quotes

“The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is always directed to the morrow, whereas goods are in the strictest sense meant to be used only for to-day.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

“Here then are the choices we all face moment by moment: Will we aim to be impressive? Will we expect to be in complete control? Will we ensure that we always come out on top as winners? Or will we be happy for the power of Christ to rest upon us in our endless weakness? 'No man can give at once the impressions that he himself is clever and that Jesus Christ is mighty to save.' Neither can any church.”
― Ray Ortlund, The Gospel: How the Church Portrays the Beauty of Christ

“A difficult journey is spiritual rewarding.
There is a more dependence on God, His supernatural power, grace and divine favour long the travel.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“When programs, methods, and money produce impressive results, there is an inclination to confuse human success with divine blessing. Christians can actually behave like practical humanists, living as if God were not necessary. When that happens, passionate longing for God and yearning for His help will be missing—along with His empowerment.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., Alone With God

“According to Christ, the pathway to revelation, the heart of revival, and the fullness of the Kingdom of God is becoming child- like. Becoming dependent as children in our relationship with our heavenly Father forces us to lose our religious mindsets and protocol. Staying in a place of wonder and trust will keep us from becoming easily offended by the ways God chooses to manifest Himself in our lives.”
― Theresa Dedmon, Born to Create: Stepping Into Your Supernatural Destiny

“We can achieve our goals either by human effort or by the power of God. The dependence on God’s power is the best choice.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Let us be exhorted to exalt God alone, and ascribe to him all the glory of redemption. Let us endeavour to obtain, and increase in, a sensibleness of our great dependence, to have our eye on him alone, to mortify a self-dependent and self-righteous disposition. Man is naturally exceeding prone to exalt himself, and depend on his own power of goodness; as though from himself he must expect happiness. He is prone to have respect to enjoyments alien from God and his Spirit, as those in which happiness is to be found. But this doctrine should teach us to exalt God alone: as by trust and reliance, so by praise. Let him that glorieth, glory in the Lord. Hath any man hope that he is converted, and sanctified, and that his mind is endowed with that true excellency and spiritual beauty? That his sins are forgiven, and he received into God’s favour, and exalted to the honour and blessedness of being his child, and an heir of eternal life? Let him give God all the glory; who alone makes him to differ from the worst of men in this world, or the most miserable of the damned in hell. Hath any man much comfort and strong hope of eternal life, let not his hope lift him up, but to dispose him the more to abase himself, to reflect on his own exceeding unworthiness of such a favour, and to exalt God alone. Is any man eminent in holiness, and abundant in good works, let him take nothing of the glory of it to himself, but ascribe it to him whose ‘workmanship we are, created in Christ Jesus unto good works.”
― Jonathan Edwards, God Glorified in Man's Dependence

“Trusting God is choosing to act in utter dependence on Him; trying harder is opting to retain control.”
― Marnie Swedberg, Flow Through Vessel: How to Master the Habit of Letting God Flow Through You

“When you ask God for strength, as I do daily, he doesn't usually just drop it from the sky. He often answers by placing you in a circumstance that requires you to build fortitude while relying solely on him.”
― Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am

“God's goal for you is total dependence on Him.”
― Marnie Swedberg, Flow Through Vessel: How to Master the Habit of Letting God Flow Through You

“Your independence is your total dependence on the Divine Being.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The frequency of prayer indicates one’s level of dependence on God.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man