Quotes About Dependence

That life begins with God's working, not with our "doing.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

I'm not afraid of the world. I'm afraid of a world without you.

She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her.

We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.

For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

The prisoner grows to love his chains.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?

The prisoner falls in love with his chains.

I love both the way a dog looks up to me and a cat condescends to me.

Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out of cigarettes.

It was the kind of job that needed you more than you needed it.

I have nothing and no one but you, and you're useless. That's not a personal commentary. It's a statement of fact.

Because Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

But is it so wrong to want to be watched over? When you're feeling small and scared—which, let's be honest, is pretty much how I feel all the time—isn't it okay, just for a moment, to want someone, something bigger than you to have all the answers, to have everything under control?

Ich verdanke dir mein Leben. Ich weiß. Wenn du Wert darauf legst, ich kann es jeden Tag einmal sagen: ich verdanke dir mein Leben (...) Du ekelst mich (...) Geh pissen (...) Heul nicht deinen Schnaps aus den Augen, wenn du ihn nicht halten kannst, sag ich, geh

My life was in her hands .

If prayer depends on how I pray, I'm sunk. But if the power of prayer depends on the One who hears the prayer, and if the One who hears the prayer is my Daddy, then I have hope.

Anytime we trust an object or activity to give us life and meaning, we worship it.

We know Satan will attack weak spots first. Forty days of fasting left Jesus famished, so Satan began with the topic of bread. Jesus' stomach was empty, so to the stomach Satan turned. Where are you empty? Are you hungry for attention, craving success, longing for intimacy? Be aware of your weaknesses. Bring them to God before Satan brings them to you. Satan will tell you to turn stones into bread (Matt 4:3). In other words, meet your own needs, take matters into your own hands.

This much is sure: contagious calm will happen to the degree that we turn to him.

When a father leads his four-year-old son down a crowded street, he takes him by the hand and says, "Hold on to me." He doesn't say, "Memorize the map" or "Take your chances dodging the traffic" or "Let's see if you can find your way home." The good father gives the child one responsibility: "Hold on to my hand.