Quotes About Dependence

He wrote, "The spiritual security of believers . . . depends primarily not on their hold on God but on God's hold of them.

Democracies are not lucky. They do not attract civic-minded leaders by chance. Rather, they attract survival-oriented leaders who understand that, given their dependence on many essentials, they can only come to and stay in power if they figure out the right basket of public goods to provide.

If this is a straightforward historical account, God created evening, morning, and days without luminaries and then created luminaries in order to effect them.83 Are we really to conclude that the division occurs without the dividers? It seems reasonable to assume that the narrator has offered a dischronologized presentation of the events in order to emphasize a theological point. God is not dependent on the luminaries.

If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.

fasting, with prayer as its companion, is designed to increase spirituality; to foster a spirit of devotion and love of God; to increase faith in the hearts of men, thus assuring divine favor; to encourage humility and contrition of soul; to aid in the acquirement of rightousness; to teach man his nothingness and dependence upon God; and to hasten those who properly comply with the law of fasting along the path to salvation.

Grace not only rescues individuals from their personal sin; it also creates a new community where the barriers of pretense and pride have been razed because of our mutual dependence on Christ.

Our dependence on Christ's justifying work to forgive our sins does not cease when we become Christians.

Our God is not moved by the deeds that we trophy, but by the desperation that we acknowledge as our own.

Success in the pulpit can be the force that leads a preacher from prayerful dependence on the Spirit.

Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.

If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die.

That mortal man should feed upon the creature that feeds his lamp

I'd rather be killed by you than kept alive by any other man

It is the harpooneer that makes the voyage, and if you take the breath out of his body how can you expect to find it there when most wanted!

Faith does not justify because of that which it is in itself, but because of that to which it is directed, in which it rests.

There's a difference between compromising your independence and compromising yourself. Love's about giving up a little dependence, darling. But that doesn't mean you have to stop being you.

Better to be the poor servant of a poor master.

And one woman wrote, in 1850, in the book Greenwood Leaves: "True feminine genius is ever timid, doubtful, and clingingly dependent; a perpetual childhood." Another book, Recollections of a Southern Matron: "If any habit of his annoyed me, I spoke of it once or twice, calmly, then bore it quietly." Giving women "Rules for Conjugal and Domestic Happiness," one book ended with: "Do not expect too much.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

You'd better take care of me, Lord. If you don't, you're gonna have me on your hands.

If the thing bites down much harder I might wig out and demand beer... stay away from the phone, watch the red arrow... this typewriter is keeping me on my rails, without it I'd be completely adrift and weird.

Once you get over the simple unpleasantness of it - I suspect most people would gag, the first time - it is easier to wipe somebody else's bum than it is your own, because you can see what you're doing and use both hands at once if necessary. The whole process is much more efficient and uses no more toilet paper than is strictly required, so it's better for the environment, too. If we were really green we'd all have somebody else wipe our bums, though I can't see it catching on.

From the experience of these years Dr. Lloyd-Jones was immovably confirmed in a truth which he had first seen in the New Testament. It was that evangelism is pre-eminently dependent upon the quality of the Christian life which is known and enjoyed in the church.

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.