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Quotes About Dependence

a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.
~ Leonard Cohen
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
~ O. Henry
Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.
~ Rajneesh
Never ask a hungry cat whether he loves you for yourself alone.
~ Louis J. Camuti
I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I'm not allowed a say in yours? But I had promised.
~ Jojo Moyes
There is nothing more disconcerting to passers-by than to see a man in a wheelchair pleading with a woman who is meant to be looking after him. It's apparently not really the done thing to be angry with your disabled charge. Especially
~ Jojo Moyes
There is nothing more disconcerting to passers-by than to see a man in a wheelchair pleading with a woman who is meant to be looking after him.
~ Jojo Moyes
Tú, Clark -se miró las manos-. eres la única persona con la que siento que pudo hablar desde que acabé en esta maldita silla.
~ Jojo Moyes
I realized I was afraid of living without him. How is it you have the right to destroy my life, I wanted to demand of him, but I'm not allowed a say in yours? -Lou
~ Jojo Moyes
I want to tell him that I don't know what I feel. I want him but I'm frightened to want him. I don't want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's, to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control. His
~ Jojo Moyes
Humans serve cats as dogs serve humans. And sometimes, I fear, as ineptly.
~ Jon Evans
Speak for me. Help me to make the decisions that I cannot make. Do not ask me to tell you when it's time for me to go, for that is beyond my simple province. I love you and trust you, and I have depended on you all of my life to make decisions for me. Now, when I need you the most, do not fail me. Whatever you decide, I know it will be your best decision, and I wish you nothing but peace with it.
~ Jon Katz
You can't let God down because you are not the one holding him up
~ Jon Scott
I have opened my belly and placed you inside.
~ Jonathan Cott
In many different ways, the attack on values of collectivity and cooperation is articulated through the notion that freedom is to be free of any dependence on others, while in fact we are experiencing a more comprehensive subjection to the "free" workings of markets. As Harold Bloom has shown, the real American religion is "to be free of other selves.
~ Jonathan Crary
When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ's sake.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Being sensible that I am unable to do anything without God's help, I do humbly entreat him by his grace to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to his will, for Christ's sake.
~ Jonathan Edwards
One great law for all who would be truly led by God's Pillar of cloud and fire, is to take no step at the bidding of self-will or without the clear moving of the heavenly Guide. Though the direction be new and the way seem beset with difficulty, there is never any risk, provided we are only led of God. Each new advance needs separate and special authority from Him, and yesterday's guidance is not sufficient for to-day.
~ Jonathan Edwards
We are dependent on Christ the Son of God, as he is our wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption. We are dependent on the Father, who has given us Christ, and made him to be these things to us. We are dependent on the Holy Ghost, for 'tis of him that we are in Christ Jesus; 'tis the Spirit of God that gives faith in him, whereby we receive him and close with him.
~ Jonathan Edwards
God is glorified in the work of redemption in this, that there appears in it so absolute and universal a dependence of the redeemed on him. Here
~ Jonathan Edwards
I wanted not the favor of man to lean upon; for I knew Christ's favor was infinitely better, and that it was no matter when, nor where, nor how Christ should send me, nor what trials He should still exercise me with, if I might be prepared for His work and will.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Our cleaving to them, and having their God for our God and their people for our people, depends on our resolution and choice; and that in two respects. 1. The firmness of resolution in using means in order to it, is the way to have means effectual. There are means appointed in order to our becoming some of the true Israel and having their God for our God; and the thorough use of these means is the way to have success; but not a slack or slighty use of them.
~ Jonathan Edwards
And each person of the Trinity is equally glorified in this work: there is an absolute dependence of the creature on every one for all: all is of the Father, all through the Son, and all in the Holy Ghost. Thus God appears in the work of redemption as all in all.
~ Jonathan Edwards