Quotes About Dependence

An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.

We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.

Men love women but, even more than that, men love cars.

Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted

Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

The school depends not on man, or any set of men. God planted it, and we are but gardeners to take care of it.

Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man.

When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?

While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals... can possibly be a true Christian.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

I trust men only because I trust God.

When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.

The greatest of men must turn beggars when they have to do with Christ.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.

A woman doesn't just love a man. She loves who he is. And, who he is is dependent on what he needs.