Quotes About Dependence

My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.

Helplessness is unquestionably the first and the surest indication of a praying heart. ... Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray.

Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.

Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is to believe.

A humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God, and that all that is necessary is to be reconciled to one's helplessness and let our holy and almighty God care for us, just as an infant surrenders himself to his mother's care.

Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

The sun will set without thy assistance.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth, and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

Put not your trust in princes.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together-humble dependence and manly independence; humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Give a cat a fish and you make a friend forever.

That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren't there.

It stunned him how much he could want her still, baffled him that she could be blind to how helpless he was under the clawing need for her. It infuriated him that she could, simply by existing, be his weakness. 'Hold

I'd blow your mind with it. I'm talking hashtag-phone-gasm, right? I mean, I don't even know what all it can do yet and I'm on it all the time. You know?

Don't make me feel like you don't need me. ~ Mavis

What she too often saw as dependence should have been accepted as unity.

And bottom line, without John by her side, everything seemed to be just a big, resounding meh.

I'm so sorry. I love you. Please forgive me. Can't live without you.

To have nothing and throw yourself on the mercy of others was a strange kind of terror.

This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.