Quotes About Dependence

As a result, Jamestown and the other Virginia forays survived on Indian charity

But a plant on the edge of a deserts is said to struggle for life against the drought, though more properly it should be said to be dependent upon the moisture.

Father of mine, I abandon myself to you, make of me that which is pleasing to you. Whatever you might do to me, I thank you.

Suddenly, in the here and now, everything depended on the houbara bustard.

Neglecting to ask God's counsel, neglecting to seek God's timing, you step in to *handle* things. And by and by, you've got a mess on your hands.

Isn't it remarkable what God can do without our help? Sometimes we think, My company needs me. My church needs me. My family needs me. Hey, God must need me, too. No, He doesn't. He can manage quite well without us, remarkable though it may seem. In fact, He prefers us to step aside and leave the striving to Him.

Everything – the entire 400-megabuck investment, ten years of Company black operations – depends on what happens in the next few hours.

I know liquor's a good servant but a bad master.

When you bow your head to pray—when you're in a jam and you need to ask God for something—are you aware of who you're talking to?

Prayer, at its most basic level, was surrender. Like Jesus in the garden, saying, "Not My will, but Yours, be done.

God, I wrote, I don't know if you care about my heart or my life, but if you do, I desperately need you. Or maybe you're already doing something and I'm oblivious. I don't know how this works. I'm at the end. Break through. I don't want to hurt my kids. I don't want to hurt my husband. I don't want to hurt the church. And I don't want to hurt you. Please help me.

The believer's job was to come to God with a surrendered heart. To come empty-handed every morning not to get what you wanted but to receive all of who He was and what He wanted for you.

Horses are a mirror of who you are. They're emotionally dependent on you.

I never got with Dre for money because he didn't have a driver's license, a car or insurance... or a house. We lived with his Auntie, who I ended up calling mommy.

The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.

those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

Then you pray the prayer that is the essence of every ritual: God, I have no hope. I am torn to shreds. You are my first and my last and only refuge. Don't do daily prayers like a bird pecking, moving its head up and down. Prayer is an egg. Hatch out the total helplessness inside. —RUMI

Childhood is a time when we should move our children from a position of dependence on us to a position of independence from us and toward dependence on God.

It is not often appreciated how much intelligence services depend on the news media for their information. Part of it was functional. They were in much the same business, and the intelligence services didn't have the brain market cornered.

she kept checking her e-mail every five minutes, carrying the phone everywhere she went, just in case he decided to get in touch while she was in the shower or the laundry room.

He'd gone through the first two decades of his life taking it for granted that everything would always be okay, that he could only fall so far before someone would catch him and set him back on his feet.

When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.