Relying On God Quotes

• The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.

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  C. S. Lewis

  God   Done   Pay  

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• Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal.

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  Isaiah

  Rocks   Forever   Trust In God  

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• God has defeated Satan through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Through this overwhelming victory, God has also empowered you to overcome any temptation to sin and has provided sufficient resources for you to respond biblically to any problem of life. By relying on God's power and being obedient to His Word, you can be an overcomer in any situation.

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  John C. Broger

  Jesus   Temptation   Victory  

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• For a long time I thought-'I've got to buck up and be strong. I've got to put on a brave face-and get through this near burn-out or that discouraging time in my life,'" "God has really seriously changed my thinking on this. When you take off the mask, you relate at a base level to everyone else who has been through pain-and everyone has. Honesty promotes intimacy and promotes us together relying on God. True honesty is beautiful.

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  Rebecca St. James

  Beautiful   Strong   Pain  

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• Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

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  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational   Wisdom   Miracle  

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.13, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

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  C. S. Lewis

  God   Wisdom   Atheist  

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

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  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational   Motivational   Change  

  Atlanta Magazine, April 2008.

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• I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

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  C. S. Lewis

  Faith   God   Christian  

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find Him.

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  Blaise Pascal

  Fear   Believe   Character  

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 244, 1895.

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• Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

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  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational   Life   Faith  

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