Quotes About Dependence

Lord God, Your Holy Spirit helps me in my weakness. I do not know what I ought to pray for, but the

We learn to be victorious by surrendering our lives completely to the Spirit of God, not by gritting our teeth and trying harder.

We can easily be led into captivity by seeking other answers to needs and desires that only God can meet.

It does not depend on human will and effort, but on God who shows mercy. Romans 9:16

Lord, Your Word says that he who trusts in himself is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom is kept safe (Prov. 28:26). I've come to realize that I cannot trust in myself. My safety is in learning to trust in You, Lord.

When we were kids, we didn't have the luxury to take decisions of our life as the right was reserved for our parents. There were a lot of insecurities, not necessarily towards how we look but otherwise as well.

My father use to say if coal died, the country died. He was right. Our economy rests on the back of the coal miner. If we did not have the black diamonds of the mountains to burn, we would lose more than half of the nation's energy reserves.

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

It is good to have an intellectual awareness of our dependence upon God - to understand how great He is and how very small we are in His sight.

If I was to become a manager, I would not want someone else to be signing the players for the team that my job depended on.

When we pray, we bring that power to bear upon everything we are praying about, and we allow the power of God to work through our powerlessness. When we pray, we are humbling ourselves before God and saying, "I need Your presence and Your power, Lord. I can't do this without You." When we don't pray, it's like saying we have no need of anything outside of ourselves.

Cast your burden on the LORD, and He shall sustain you;

Our decision every day must be to live a righteous life—not in our own strength, but by the enablement of the Holy Spirit in us. We must acknowledge that we depend on God and choose to live our life for Him. Even though we are a new creation, we still must decide to live like we are.

The Holy Spirit's desire is that we become more and more dependent upon Him for every step. That's because He wants to take us to places we've never been before. To heights we can't even imagine!

No matter how far off the path you have gotten from the plans and purposes God has for you, when you surrender your life to the Lord and declare your utter dependence upon Him, He carves a path from where you are to where you are supposed to be, and He sets you on it.

Lord, help me to be a good wife. I fully realize that I don't have what it takes to be one without Your help. Take my selfishness, impatience, and irritability and turn them into kindness

It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. PSALM 118:8

that I don't have what it takes to be one without Your help. Take my selfishness

We don't want to limit what God can do in our children by clutching them to ourselves and trying to parent them alone.

We can't ever allow ourselves to get into the situation where we believe we don't need to worship God. We must not think for a moment that nothing can shake us—that we don't need God and we can't fail. We must not have a false sense of security and suppose we don't need to pour ourselves out before the Lord in praise and empty ourselves before Him in humble worship. We cannot imagine for even an instant that God's rules don't apply to us.

Cuando oramos, nos humillamos a nosotros mismos delante de Dios y decimos: "Necesito tu presencia y tu poder, Señor. No puedo hacer esto sin ti". Si no oramos, es como decir que somos más que suficientes para enfrentar situaciones y que no necesitamos a Dios.

Better catch up with reality. You're missing the boat. Time's going to come when computers will do everything." "I have trouble believing that. It just seems so unlikely ." "You're not a believer like the rest of us. The day will come when ten-year-olds will master these machines and you'll be at their mercy.

Psychiatrist Jonathan Shay in his book on the trauma of combat, Odysseus in America, reminds us that there are "two momentous human universals": that we are all born helpless and dependent, and that we are all mortal and we know it. The only healthy way to deal with this vulnerability is to reach out and hold each other. Then, calmed and strengthened, we can walk out into the world

This healthy dependence is the essence of romantic love. The bodies of lovers are linked in a "neural duet." One person sends out signals that alter the hormone levels, cardiovascular function, body rhythms, and even immune system of the other. In loving connection, the cuddle hormone oxytocin floods lovers' bodies, bringing a calm joy and the sense that everything is right with the world. Our bodies are set up for this kind of connection.