Quotes About Dependence

Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.

A man is what he is on his knees, and no more.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

The nation which can only be saved by one man and wants to be saved that way deserves a whipping!

Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.

To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.

A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch.

The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

The truly religious man does everything as if everything depends on himself, and then leaves everything as if everything depended on God.

Man lives by bread alone, when there is no bread.

If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to see you, and to give a fuck - you've already blown it.

He is no longer connected to the network by a fiber-optic cable, and so all his communication with the outside world has to take place via radio waves

Understand that in order for organized religion to succeed, it has to make people believe they need it. In order for people to put faith in something else, they must first lose faith in themselves. So the first task of organized religion is to make you lose faith in yourself. The second task is to make you see that it has the answers you do not. And the third and most important task is to make you accept its answers without question.

I feel it in my pocket. I don't want to lose it. It's one of the only things that's making me me right now. Without my cell phone, who will I be? I won't have any friends because I don't have their numbers memorized. I'll barely have a family since I don't know their cell phone numbers, just their home line. I'll be like an animal.

But your relationship with air—that's key. You can't break up with air. You're kind of stuck together. Only slightly less crucial is water. And then food. You can't be dropping food to hang with someone else. You need to strike up an agreement with it.

Bobby sips his coffee. "If there wasn't coffee on this earth, I'd be dead.

If there wasn't coffee on this earth, I'd be dead.

I asked him, half-seriously, if he ever asked God to help him give it up. 'The drink? I only have the courage to pray for sobriety, d'you know, when I'm drunk.

That's when I started to leave it behind. I realized that I got my entire validation from women. Women became like gods to me, but false gods.

We will never learn so much that we will no longer need to be dependent upon the Lord. A

The life begins to drain when our confidence and dependence upon God shifts to confidence and dependence upon programs

God, however, has not called us to produce fruit, only to bear it as we abide in Christ.

When a good man employs others he becomes a slave to the job, for the job is the guarantee for the security of many men.

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