Quotes About Dependence

Man depends on God for his continual existence and intellectual operations; he is not autonomous or independent in any sphere of life.

the mature minister or believer is marked by his ability to handle the Bible with wisdom and skill, but this must include a genuine dependence on the Holy Spirit to work with the Scripture to render it effective. He knows his role. He knows what he must do, but he also realizes that there are some things he must not even try to do – instead, he must count on God's Spirit to make them happen.

as Christians, all our wisdom, holiness, and worth come from God, and not from ourselves, so that without him, we are nothing and can do nothing (John 15:5).

All created things are not independent, nor are they self-existent, and must ultimately be dependent on something which is independent, and therefore must still be constantly depending on this first cause. This is who we call God.

Men don't know what they like. They rely on us to tell them.

In a way, a man's life depended on the china horse. Or at least on the breaking of the china horse.

Every society is three meals away from chaos

But humans drive the cars and decide when dogs eat and where dogs live and clearly this was something else in their power - they could find their dogs when they needed them.

My dog back home, Molly…" CJ said to me, and her voice trailed off. She sighed. "I needed Molly so much, Max. I was younger when I got her, and stuff at home … it wasn't so great. But you—it's different with you. You need me. I just wish Jillian could see that!

Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce Himself in you. It is not self-righteousness but Christ-righteousness, the righteousness that is by faith—a faith that by renewed dependence upon God releases His divine action to restore the marred image of the invisible God.

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety.

People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

The computer is here to stay, therefore it must be kept in its proper place as a tool and a slave, or we will become sorcerer's apprentices, with data data everywhere and not a thought to think.

If computers take over, it will serve us right.

The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

I am a computer illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get.

I'm the most computer illiterate human being that ever lived. My grandkids do everything for me, and then they say, "I won't even explain it to you, grandpa, 'cause you won't get it."

We don't need self-confidence we need God-confidence

Our confidence...is not in the competence of our own knowing, but in the faithfulness and reliability of the one who is known.

You have to have confidence in who you are, because you never know who's depending on you.

The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself--are identical.

I never knew I lacked so much confidence until I met you

Being a slave to a fellow human being, many times, starts with giving his opinion more weight than you should.