Quotes About Dependence

As we place our dependence upon God, an incredible freedom and peace will begin to rest in our hearts. And reaching that point in our lives makes every failure worth it.

Your spiritual well-being is far more important than anything material. So God will bring you to utter dependence on Him rather than allow your possessions to become a destructive idol in your life.

Cuando confiamos en que Jesucristo sea nuestra suficiencia, Él toma cartas en el asunto y nos hace más de lo que somos en nuestra fortaleza, en nuestro intelecto o en nuestra habilidad.

Más bien estaba consciente de tener una gran necesidad que no podía resolver por mi cuenta. Tenía que confiar en aquel que podía resolver los problemas por mí.

Friend, it is sheer pride that keeps you relying on yourself rather than depending on and obeying Your heavenly Father, who wants to be your strength, your life, and your all. Stop trying to figure everything out. Kneel before Him and leave all that concerns you in His hands. He will not fail you.

Prayer and Anxiety SCRIPTURE READING: PSALM 69:1–3 KEY VERSE: 1 PETER 5:7

People get into trouble when they look to others to solve their problems. God is our problem solver.

It is so very easy and so very pleasant, too, to read only books which lead to nothing, light and interesting books, and the more the better, that it is almost as difficult to wean ourselves from it as from the habit of chewing tobacco to excess, or of smoking the whole time, or of depending for stimulus upon tea or coffee or spirits.

Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.

Our hearts crave a dependence our minds deny us.

The cigarette does the smoking — you're just the sucker.

To many, the cigarette is a portable therapist.

A nonsmoker is forced to find food, but for a smoker breakfast can be a cigarette and a cup of bad coffee.

Dear Father," she prayed, "please take care of this for me. Don't let me have to go anywhere or do anything with that MacCallummore man, please, dear Lord." When she arose she looked about her with eyes that were touched with peace again. Now she mustn't just sit here and brood over this thing. She had given it into God's hands, and that was all there was to do at present.

Dear Lord, here is something again that I don't know how to manage and can't do anything about. Won't You please take over, and help me to trust it utterly to You? Show me just what to say and do.

Thanks for the warning, but you see, I'm working for God and I can't quit till He says so. If I'm worth anything to Him He'll take care of me.

Thy will, not ours, be done.

Galatians 5:16-23 reminds us of Jesus' description of our relationship to him as branches connected to a vine (John 15:1-11).

When I seek him, root my values and desires in him, when I found my relationships and sense of self on him, my capacity for joy increases. The more I "have" Jesus, the deeper my enjoyment of him. He increases my desire for those things that are good, adds value to that which is benign, and diminishes the strength of the negative (the evil) that threatens to throttle me. My dependence on material values and experiences as the means by which I define or please myself decreases.

The only way to get what we truly need is to surrender our needs to God.

Where would I be if not for your wild heart? I ask this not from love, but selfishly— how could I live? How could I make my art?

L'amour, tu vois, c'est comme l'oxygène, si on en manque trop longtemps on finit par en mourir. Tu m'as tellement aimée en quelques mois que j'ai eu des réserves d'amour pendant des années. Grâce à elles, j'ai pu affronter beaucoup de choses, mais j'arrive au bout de mes réserves, Martin.

This explains why the characters in the Mahabharata and in other texts of the classical Indian tradition prefer to depend on reason rather than on blind faith. 56

For each and every person, our Lord and Master provides sustenance. Why are you so afraid, O mind? The flamingos fly hundreds of miles, leaving their young ones behind. Who feeds them, and who teaches them to feed themselves? Have you ever thought of this in your mind?