Quotes About Self-sufficiency

Sometimes I think that's all you need. A good man with a fishing tip, a wave. A woman once in a while. Some work to do that might mean something. A truck that runs, that some faceless bastard two hundred miles away can't turn off. It's not much, but plenty when you don't have any of it.

“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.

Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ëI am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.í

And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”

and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.

Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone.

For even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “If anyone is unwilling to work, he shall not eat.”

We command and urge such people by our Lord Jesus Christ to begin working quietly to earn their own living.