Quotes About Dependence

If you're prone to social perfectionism, your self-esteem will be dangerously dependent on keeping the roles and responsibilities you believe you have. You'll tend to agree with statements such as "Success means I must work harder to please others." It's not what you expect of yourself. "It's what you think other people expect

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.

The bird a nest the spider a web the human friendship.

My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping load, Like a friend hid in a cloud.

My heart panted after this—to lie low before God, as in the dust; that I might be nothing, and that God, might be all, that I might become as a little child. …

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.

Sure I arn't a cabbage, that if you pull it out of the ground it must die.

One who takes a favor or submits to patronage demeans himself. He falls under obligation. He

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

Such is the weak constitution of grace, that it can neither well bear smiles or frowns from God without a snare; as one said of our English nation,[2] it cannot well bear liberty nor bondage in the height. So neither can the soul.

True faith is prayerful. Prayer, it is the child of faith; and as the child bears his father's name upon him, so doth prayer the name of faith.

Having a cat is like having a pet. Having a dog is like having a really stupid brother who needs a lot of looking after.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

Somebody tells you they drink because they're a failure, it ain't so. They're a failure because they drink. And they drink because it's so damn hard not to. But as long as they have a bottle that isn't empty, they never feel far from being happy. ("Bums")

The bottom line was that people who leaned too heavily on someone else were setting themselves up for a terrible fall, and they had no one to blame in the end but themselves for the hurt they suffered. Cork had learned the hard way.

You have won…Maiev. But the huntress…is nothing without the hunt. You…are nothing…without me.

putting your faith in Milligan is just a fancy term for despair.

she encouraged them, allowed them to encourage her. She needed them. Because she was still not sure she could do what she had set out to do.

Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.

Oh, if ever I get to heaven, it will be because God will, and nothing else; for I never did any thing of myself, but get away from God!