Quotes About Dependence

It was the mission of the Confederacy, ordinary whites were told, to carry out God's design for an inferior and dependent race. Slaveholders claimed that owning slaves always entailed a duty and a burden — a duty and burden that defined the moral superiority of the South. And this duty and burden was respected by millions of nonslaveholding whites, who were prepared to defend it with their lives. That, perhaps, was the ultimate meaning of a "slave society.

if you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from it.

I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.

Dear Reader, let me tell you this: Love and trust are Siamese twins, as conjoined as Chang and Eng.

Fiver hung onto my arm as if I was the last boat on the Lusitania.

He was alone in the world, and the world was Natalie. Usually

The English word surrender carries the implication of putting one's full weight on someone or something. It involves letting go—a release of effort, tension and fear. And it involves trust. One cannot let go of self-dependence and transfer dependence to someone else without trust. Floating is a good illustration of this, because you cannot float until you let go.

Our call, like Jesus' call, is to live out our life in truth and in dependence on the loving will of the Father.

God's will for us is that we live out the harmonious expression of our gifts, temperament, passions and vocation in truthful dependence on God.

He craved Mildred's body and he couldn't do without it, and that was the one and only reason he went on living with her.

we do owe everything we are to others. This is simply true. The language we speak and even think in, our habits and opinions, the kind of food we like to eat, the knowledge that makes our lights switch on and toilets flush, even the style in which we carry out our gestures of defiance and rebellion against social conventions—all of this we learned from other people, most of them long dead.

Even the most extreme individualists only become individuals through the care and support of their fellows;

We owe everything we are to others. This is simply true. The language we speak and even think in , our habits and opinions , the kind of food we like to eat, the knowledge that makes our lights switch on and toilets flush, even the style in which we carry out our gestures of defiance and rebellion against social conventions. All of this we learned from other people , most of them long dead. Does it make sense to think of all this as debt we we to others ?

Chuang Tzu had long ago written words that now expressed Jung's predicament: My dependence is like that of the snake on his skin. How can I tell why I do this, or why I do that?56

Thomas Merton once elo-quently stated, "To attain ... spiritual wisdom, one must first be liberated from servile dependence on the 'wisdom of speech' (1. Cor. 1:17).

He and Willoughby preferred that the Pentagon and the Truman administration be completely dependent upon them for any information about what was going on in their area of Asia—with no countervailing intelligence to limit his hand. Control intelligence, and you control decision-making.

God will give you anything as long as you understand that he is the primary and not the secondary.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

Once we surrender our mind to God completely, He will take care of us in every way.

God is the source. Everything else is a resource.

They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due

It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

If you are not guided by God, you will be guided by something or someone else.

When we demonstrate our faith in God by our obedience, He not only promises to provide for us, He will provide.