Quotes About Dependence

If we are to depend on prayer during tough times, we should be people of prayer before the crisis hits.

Cuál es el problema? El problema es que estamos confiando en nuestras propias fuerzas en vez de confiar en las fuerzas del Espíritu Santo. No solo debemos saber cómo Dios desea que vivamos; también necesitamos el poder para hacerlo.

We are to pray in times of adversity, lest we become faithless and unbelieving. We are to pray in times of prosperity, lest we become boastful and proud. We are to pray in times of danger, lest we become fearful and doubting. We need to pray in times of security, lest we become self-sufficient.

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.

The one who made the Ford knew how to make it run. God made you and me, and He alone knows how to run your life and mine. We could make a complete wreck of our lives without Christ.

Often, we try to tell God what we want Him to do—but ask Him to help you guard against this, and to seek His will instead of your own. Pray and ask God to guide you.

Your salvation depends on what [Christ] has done for you, not on what you do for Him. It isn't your hold on God that saves you; it's His hold on you.

One reason God allows times of difficulty and suffering to come into our lives is so that we will not take Him for granted but will remember in a deeper way His faithfulness to us and our dependence on Him.

If anything ever happened to you, I don't know what I'd do. You're all I have, August. I don't want

We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.

Learn how to collect manna for yourself. Christians who rely on a weekly sermon to feed themselves are probably malnourished.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

When the mortal mind appears, buddhahood disappears. When the mortal mind disappears, buddhahood appears. When the mind appears, reality disappears. When the mind disappears, reality appears. Whoever knows that nothing depends on anything has found the Way. And whoever knows that the mind depends on nothing is always at the place of enlightenment.

As a sculptor, Faffan had no choice but to depend almost entirely on prizes, grants and commissions, which made for a highly unreliable income.

It's an extraordinary thing, the moment of surrender. To get down on your knees and ask the silence to save you, to reveal itself to you. To kneel down, to implore, to throw yourself out into space, to quietly whisper or roar your insignificance. To fall prostrate and ask to be carried. To humble yourself with your family, your bandmates, and to discover if there's a face or a name to that silence.

Listen to me now I need to let you know You don't have to go it alone And it's you when I look in the mirror And it's you when I don't pick up the phone Sometimes you can't make it on your own

Among a large class there seemed to be a dependence upon the Government for every conceivable thing. The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the Federal officials to create one for them.

During the whole of the Reconstruction period our people throughout the South looked to the Federal Government for everything, very much as a child looks to its mother.

rich people are coming to regard men and women who apply to them for help for worthy objects, not as beggars, but as agents for doing their work.

Myron remained unconvinced. "Even if I agreed to go along with this cockamamy scheme, what about nights? You expect me to watch her twenty-four hours a day?" "Of course not. Win will help you there." "Win has better things to do." "Tell that goy boy-toy it's for me," Norm said. "He loves me." A

the machine masturbated and we had to take it or die.

I found myself wondering what life would be if Jem were different, even from what he was now; what I would do if Atticus did not feel the necessity of my presence, help and advice. Why, he couldn't get along a day without me. Even Calpurnia couldn't get along unless I was there. They needed me.

Of course Jem antagonized me sometimes until I could kill him, but when it came down to it he was all I had.

As Dill explained, I found myself wondering what life would be if Jem were different, even from what he was now; what I would do if Atticus did not feel the necessity of my presence, help and advice. Why, he couldn't get along a day without me. Even Calpurnia couldn't get along unless I was there. They needed me.