Quotes About Dependence

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves or on whom she simply depends is want of courage.

She wanted to collapse and be rescued, and she wanted to be heroic and prevail, and she seemed to hate him most for reminding her, merely by taking it all in, that she could manage neither.

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.

Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, "Well isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.

Dependence, sorrow, repentance, a longing to change—these are the gates to God's kingdom.

We pray because we can't help it. The

The world runs by ungrace. Everything depends on what I do.

Anderson draws from the experience of Judas a key principle about prayer: "Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and unpredictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

There's something unique about having only God to lean on in times of trial.

Only he who is helpless can truly pray.

unless we learn dependence we will never experience grace.

I need God more than anything I might get from God.

No matter how capable we are, we need God every day, living in us and acting through us. We need his courage and his hope, his love and his companionship. We need his salvation. We can't live without God.

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for

suffering can serve as instruments to teach us the value of dependence, and unless we learn dependence we will never experience grace. The apostle Paul gave the Corinthians an

comes with me everywhere. I bend down and quietly put her out of the room. She whines and

Looking from one bright delighted face to another I thought for one illuminating moment what fools we were to make this one man's temper the very centre of our lives

We pray because our own solutions don't work and because prayer deploys, activates, and fortifies us against the attacks of the enemy. We

We pray because our own solutions don't work and because prayer deploys, activates, and fortifies us against the attacks of the enemy.

How does a person receive rain? Not by prying it loose from the sky but just by watching it fall, by standing in the downpour, by thanking Him for opening up the floodgates and sending what He knows we need and can't get for ourselves, yet what He so faithfully, regularly, and graciously gives.

Start each day and each decision with an immediate declaration of complete dependence on Him.

mammals, he mutters. can't live with them, can't live without them.

If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference. —A. W. TOZER (1897–1963)