Quotes About Dependence

With man, the life of the body depends on the life of the spirit.

We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

When I was a kid and I'd be in trouble. I'd ask God to help me, and then once the fire was out, I wouldn't talk to Him anymore. When I got older, I began to find I needed some help spiritually, just to function.

Here's where I luck out: I'm really computer illiterate.

The devil depends on a dark secret chance, but God does it now before your own eyes.

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

You need that guy like a giraffe needs a strep throat.

A man is in a great place when he has no one to turn to but God.

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

The soul and eternity of one man depends upon the voice of another

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse.

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.

To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him.

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.